Develop Your Creativity Instantly in 12 Minutes: Find 12 Crazy Ideas To Change the World NOW!
I am creating 12 doodle exercises in 12 days. This series will be made of one-minute articles that will help you quickly generate ideas and unleash your creativity. This is the fourth article (the first three articles are here, here, and here).
Get your pencil and notebook. Draw a flower with 12 petals, like the one below. Here is your challenge:
Your goal is to make the world around you a better place. For this goal, you will use divergent thinking and create a lot of ideas. You will think of 12 ideas to improve the world around you. You might think of improving your society, your community, or your organization as well. Get some ideas and inspiration here or here. You might also check Prospect Magazine The World’s Top 50 Thinkers list.
- Do you have any ideas for the betterment of society?
- Do you have any social innovation projects or ideas?
- How can you make the world a better place?
- How can you build on different areas or disciplines to develop holistic solutions for some of the wicked problems of the world (such as climate change or inequality)?
- What kind of radical social innovations excite you? What are you curious about?

For example, here is how I did this exercise:
- First and foremost, I want to inspire and support individuals in their journeys of creativity and asset creation. I see this as my core mission.
- Second, I would like to provide coaching and support to improve the employability of young people. I want to create digital products or books to help them in this regard.
- Third, I want to transform the future of business education and universities by becoming a champion for creativity and asset creation for young people.
- Fourth, I would like to provide a high-quality library of free video resources for Turkish youth interested in creativity, business, learning, and personal development. For this purpose, I have already created about 800 YouTube videos.
- Fifth, I want to be a thought leader in the fields of creativity, jobs, and the future. In particular, I am curious about how individuals should reinvent themselves to adapt to the non-linear changes of the 2020s.
- Sixth, I want to inspire and empower everyone to be creative. Everyone is creative and can tap into their creativity through simple activities, such as doodling, writing, video-making, and notebook-keeping. I want to provide a large library of exercises and resources for individuals interested in practicing their creativity.
- Seventh, I want to contribute to social innovation, youth, arts, entrepreneurship, and education projects in Turkey. My goal is to build institutional capacity, expertise, innovation, and inspirational capital in these fields over the long term.
- Eighth, I would like to provide financial support and scholarships for creative young talent all over the world. Perhaps I can do this by establishing an NGO and a fund.
- Ninth, I would like to conduct innovative and high-impact qualitative research on topics I am curious about, such as FONKU (the fear of not keeping up).
- Tenth, I would like to be a champion of developing creative and entrepreneurial capabilities for academics. I want to create workshops, blogs, and resources to support this aim.
- Eleventh, I want to work as an entrepreneur of new ideas in the fields of work, learning, careers, creativity, content creation, storytelling, micro-entrepreneurship, and asset creation.
- Twelfth, I want to understand the Zeitgeist of our times through the lenses of technology, cinema, TV, music, social media, pop culture, comedy, fashion, science fiction, and entertainment. I want to use multidisciplinary and futurist perspectives to understand social, cultural, economic, and technological trends.
It is your turn now. Do the exercise now — it will be very rewarding for you. In 12 minutes, you will create your 12 ideas. Write them on the flower petals.
I will continue this exercise series over 12 days. Each day, you receive a straightforward creative challenge of creating 12 ideas in 12 minutes.