Your typewritten paper must address all required steps in the exercise. Your responses to the questions in the exercise should reflect your true self and true experiences. Your responses should be comprehensive and clear to the reader. Maximum length of the assignment varies depending on the exercise; please be concise. It is often difficult to pack a lot of ideas into a short space. So, leave some time for editing and condensing your thoughts before submission.
The grade for the Deliberate Practice Exercise will be based on (a) the demonstration of how you systematically identified your strengths and even practiced them, and (b) the clarity with which you convey your ideas
--------------
The 5 Percent Challenge According to a story on the Fast Company magazine website, if you spend 5 percent of your time on creative activities, you will not take away from how much work you get done.57 Furthermore, you will find yourself flooded with new ideas and innovative thinking. You can get creative inspiration from activities such as going to an art mu- seum; attending a concert, play, or ballet; visiting an historic landmark, monument, or park; sitting next to a lake or river; painting or potting; attending a lecture by an artist.
Step 1: Plan two or three artistic activities for the next week that will add up to about two hours of your time. That means two hours out of the normal 40-hour workweek, or two hours out of 112 waking hours, which is actually less than 2 percent of your time.
Step 2: Complete the table below.
Artistic Ability |
When Will you do it? |
What was it like? |
1. |
2. |
3. |
Step 3: Answer the following questions.
1. Did you feel guilty taking time “away”?
2. What was the impact of being in a creative environment?
3. Did you find, as Fast Company said, that you suffered no loss of productivity? That is, you got all your work done?
4. How can you sustain this creative endeavo