Friday, June 16, 2006

Let's test your creativity!!

What is this?

Play with your imagination...

Scroll down...

A watch
A ring [front side]
Someone on a bike wearing a Mexican hat
what's yours?

A cat
An animal with an Adidas logo [the three stripes]
An elephant who accidently sat on a freshly painted bench
Yours?

A bald head
Dry hill with only 2 un-recognized trees
A fat man looking at his own untied shoelaces
And your mind tells you....

I got this when I attended a short seminar by Eran Katz, an Israeli Guinness Book of World Records title in memory stunts. He taught us a few skills in memorizing and this is one of them: Memorizing requires creativity. It was an enjoyable fruitful evening where humours were shared and the audience were led to be awed by him.

Well, according to Katz, we never fully-utilize our brain and memory. It is NEVER full. It is simply that we are NOT interested in using it. We can memorize a whole list of phone numbers and still can recall it 50 years from now, if we simply wanted to. We can memorize the logo of each shops that we saw [imagine: Starbucks, Pizza Hut, Louis Vuitton] and able to draw every single line perfectly, if only we wanted to. So, the problem lies in ourselves. We ARE NOT interested in memorizing it. It gives us no motivational values to be remembered.

For instance, the easiest way to remember someone's name is to give him a loan. Even after a decade passed, we can still remember his name correctly if he has not paid us. This is because we are motivated to remember and there lies the interest.

Another example, ask a couple to recall what their other half is wearing. The woman can easily mention every single colour and styles and hems of her counterpart. But... Ask the men, they won't be able to answer it perfectly...well, they would say it's a gown, it's a dress, but what kind of gown? So, the conclusion is that MAN simply DOES NOT interested. Ladies, sad yah..but you do not have to waste so much time dressing up now. Men just can't remember [a.k.a they are not interested ^.*].

We do not lose our memory as we grow old. It is more likely we do not train ourselves to use our memory and the skills, thus we lose it. So, what you can do now is...start memorizing my name and my face... *hehe* but I do not want another stalker.

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Yosh...AIESEC in Singapore National Planning week 1 just passed. I am so glad that we made it through. I get to know my team better and how they work, what they're thinking, their suggestions, their crazy acts and so on. Man, I lurve the feeling. Of course at times, I feel disappointed by those who TALKS but no ACTIONS, those who promised but never appeared *we surely do not need this, don't you think?* Yeah well, those who came and participated, I really appreciate all of you. Thanks guys. And I am glad that all of us put ownership into what we would like to achieve in our term. AIESEC NTU rocks!!

The crazy pics, will upload it asap k. Stay tune *hehe*

ps: just bought 2 blouses for my mom *happy happy mo money*