Cognitive warm-up with Freestyle! A lesson for Philosophers and Consultants
It sounds a bit crazy, at least a bit uncommon. Taking a Freestyle course in your Business School? Or a practical course in Freestyle while contemplating about Plato and Popper? Sounds surreal? Well, it's intentionally provocative! Who wants to be common? Who wants to have common sense? Both Consultants and Philosophers need to have a powerful mindset and quite sturdy and tough cognitive abilities. I never saw a Philosophy Department offering a Freestyle course. Instead Business seems to be ahead of Academics. I stumbled across an Ernst&Young Conference performance of the amazing MC SuperNatural. One of his trademarks is the astonishing ability to translate randomized presented objects into a freestyle story of audience related significance. Watching him improvising on all these consumer goods makes me wonder who is going to be the first catching this creativity. Get me right here: it's not about the performance alone; it is the ability of transforming our material world into new ideas and in seeing creativity doing it's job. Understanding creativity is crucial here. Charles Limb demonstrated on a TED conference some insights into how our brain is able to be creative scanning musicians and freestyle rappers in a functional MRI. So next time you're stucked with some project on Business Development or are searching desperately for some ideas, take a break with some freestyle exercises and convince your boss paying for a freestyle workshop! Your creativity will flourish!
Enjoy the performance:
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Postscript: One of Germanys most prolific Freestyler, MC Rene, was invited to Dradio Wissen, speaking about his art. For everybody interested in more Freestyle: