CREATIVE ADVENTURES — 95
Imagine You Set A Guinness World Record
In this challenge, imagine that you have set or broken a Guinness World Record. Respond to the following prompts:
- Think of at least 7 different ideas that you could potentially apply with. Think of interesting, fun, and creative ideas. Check out this page to get some inspiration.
- Think of 10 ways that your application has been rejected. You can get some tips here.
- Imagine that you want to increase publicity for your organization. You have decided to invite an Official Guinness World Records Judge to an event that you are organizing. Your goals are to create a sense of prestige, attract international media, and enhance the emotional connection between your brand and audience. How would you pull this event off? How would you make this exciting and memorable?
- Invent your own category where you can be the world leader. What could be your niche category where you are the monopoly? What will you do about this category?
- What are the things only you can achieve? What are the things only you can create? Make a list of all.
- Imagine that you are included in Guinness World Records Annual Book. What kind of achievement would you be proud about? In which year? Visualize your accomplishment.
- Imagine that you are working at Guinness World Records. Write a comedy sketch about your day at work.
- Guinness World Records symbolizes having a sense of fun, adventure, curiosity, and passion. How can you increase these elements in your daily life? Create 10 ideas and small actions to implement.
- Imagine you have made a record at the Olympic games. What is it about? How did you accomplish this?
- Imagine you are invited for a TED talk about your Guinness record achievements. Prepare your TED talk on your secret recipe for success.
- Imagine you create a new organization similar to Guinness World Records (GWR), but one that is more focused on rewarding inspiring social innovations addressing wicked problems facing humanity (such as inequality or climate change). What could you learn from the success story of GWR?
