Make Something

Creative thinking actually increases the brains health and elasticity.  A great way to develop creative thinking is to make something new.  Dr. Daniel G. Amen (physician, psychiatrist, clinical neuroscientist, and bestselling author) says that for brain health “it is important to work your brain often”.  He recommends “learning something new and different” on a daily basis.  One way to do this is to make something new.  It can be a small project or an ambitious one as long as it requires new areas of learning and presents you with new challenges.

What should you make?
What would you like to make?
Just about anything that interests you will work.  Here are a few random ideas to get your brain in gear.  Click on one to learn more or let them open the door to a good online search that leads you to a worthwhile project.

Make A Guitar
Building A Solid-body Guitar

Make An Igloo
How To Make An Igloo

Make An Online Painting
Free Artpad Online Painter

Make A Camera

About Pinhole Cameras

How To Make A Pinhole Camera

Make A Sports Garage
Garage Mahal Sports Garage

Make A Sunclock
Making A Sunclock
Optical Sphere Sunclock

Make A Flow Chart
Easy To Use Diagram Software
Free Online

Make A New Color Scheme
Kuler: Color Selection Tool
Free Online

Make A Fried Turkey
How to fry a turkey
Without burning down the house

Make A Paper Craft Project
Make a Papercraft LED Lantern

I didn’t know what a Freedom Gundam was,
but the following video is pretty impressive.

Make A Tiny Sculpture
Unbelievable! and he was able to sell his 
life's work (up to that point) for $20 million.




Make A Large Sculpture
This one is unusual and it demonstrates
the remarkable skills of hyper-realist 
sculptor Ron Mueck.



The following website links may help you choose a project as well.

As you engage in the making of something new recognize the mental stimulation it produces as well as the mental discipline that it takes to follow it through to completion (especially if you chose something more ambitious).  Each stage in the making process presents new challenges for you and your brain to overcome.  Each challenge overcome promotes a sharper brain and permanent new understandings that can branch out into new concepts and ideas.  You also strengthen your will to be a finisher and in today’s world that is an enormous advantage.

Choose something interesting but don’t get bogged down in the choice.  If necessary give yourself a deadline in the choosing process and always give yourself a deadline for the project you choose.  It only takes minutes to begin the process so take the time to make something new and experience the inevitable personal improvement that comes with stepping outside your comfort zone and creating.  Thomas Edison said “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."  Don't miss out.

          In a nut shell

   1-Make something new
   2-Choose a project
   3-Set a deadline and make it
   4-Be sure to finish it

Quotes
Zaha Hadid

“You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is! You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal, know what it is that you are trying to find out."

Videos

Reuben Margolin is a kinetic sculptor creating waves in motion.


Tim Kaiser is a musician that now makes experimental Instruments for original ambient sound.