9th February 2022

    Today, we did the activity, in which we write the circle in a squared place, and draw a line to cover all nine circles. By doing this, I learned that people tend to suppress their own creativity by themselves. I thought this is because mainly in Japan, people make fools of "not normal" ideas. 

    I was the one that I couldn't share my idea, and I realized that placing the circles irregularly on the four sidelines of the square when we are made to think of the four lines, but I could not raise my hands up because I was scared to share my unusual idea.

    I thought, there are many people having creativity, but the environment of the society is completely erasing their chance to share it, which is a very important thing for people to return the creativity to some kind of achievements. 

2th February 2022

    Today, we did the marshmallow challenge with friends. It was very interesting. We are unconsciously making up a new rule, and maybe this is because we are always being tied up by rules. I learned that this tendency in society may vanish people's creativity, and I was a little bit scared about it. 

    Mr. Paterson said that it is very important to make many prototypes in a limited time. I learned that to make many prototypes, we need to keep the pasta in a shape that would be easy to make shapes. For example, our team broke our pasta into a quarter size, which made us difficult to change the form when we realized that our idea do not work properly. 

    To be honest, I even never thought of things such as asking for more pasta or researching it on google. I may think that this is because I am caring about what people would think about me "cheating".  I thought this is very interesting because the teammates should be the people who corporates and get more ideas to win in the game, but as a result, these teammates is being the people who are suppressing one's creativity.