Bright Ideas

Bright Idea’s Journal Experience

This journaling assignment proved to be a very interesting experience. When I first read the assignment I didn’t really get it or understand the point, but as I broke out my journal and put it in my car I started to think about the directions and what all the assignment entailed. I began the assignment after reading the syllabus the first day of school, or at least that is when I began thinking about it daily and started trying to identify and or recognize ideas or thoughts that I had classify them as either ideas or just general thoughts.

At first I was troubled with the instructions that stated defer all judgment and that ideas could be anything from what to get someone for their birthday to an idea or solution to solve an actual problem. I was wrestling with my own thoughts of what I classified as an idea versus just freewheeling and writing down random thoughts, when I realized the assignment was made just for this purpose. I realized the assignment was to get us to be more conscious of our daily thought processes and learn how to identify ideas and how we create ideas and solutions everyday even though some may be miniscule and seem like routine processes, they are still ideas that we have or create as part of a process that we have been mentally trained to do without giving thought to it most of the time.

The real eye opener was when I was able to begin to identify the small thoughts from the actual times when I really needed to come up with an idea or solution to an actual problem that was in front of me. I think that we have so many thoughts or ideas on a routine basis that it becomes second nature and we do not even think twice about how we generate ideas on a daily basis and how we implement them into our lives. I hated this assignment when I first read through it but once I realized what the real purpose was it was rather enjoyable to learn how to reprogram my brain to identify these processes and really explorer...