Lesson Investigating skills. Case study Task Read the passage and guess who it is about

Lesson 5. Investigating skills. Case study

Task 1. Read the passage and guess who it is about.

He was intrinsically motivated because art was his passion from a very young age. He wanted to entertain people and was excellent at it. He wanted to educate the public on the importance of preserving nature and improving the quality of life for the future. He also wanted to provide a place for the talent of the future to be developed. He could be so motivated and successful because he was not afraid of failure. He failed many times before getting his big break but always bounced back. He risked everything several times in his life but fortunately always came out on top. He believed that Genius is the ability to take something that exists in the imagination only and forge it into a physical existence that directly influences the experience of others in a positive way. His studios completed full-length animated classics such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi. He said: “If you can dream it you can do it”

His thinking technique synthesized three different strategies: the dreamer, realist, and the critic. A dreamer without a realist is often not able to translate fantasies into tangible reality. A dreamer and critic become engaged in constant conflict. A dreamer and realist can create things but find that a critic helps to evaluate and refine the final products. He used three rooms and moved the ideas round three rooms and each room had a different function where he could transform into the dreamer, the realist, and the critic. In room one where he was a dreamer he thought of innumerable fantasies, wishes, outrageous hunches and bold and absurd ideas without limit or judgment. Nothing is censored. Nothing is too absurd or silly. All things are possible for the dreamer. To be the dreamer, ask: What is the most absurd idea I can conceive?

Then he moved to the second room where he turned into a realist and imagineered the dreamer’s ideas into something realistic. He would try to figure out how to make the ideas work and then sort them out in some meaningful order. To be the realist, ask: How can I make this happen? What is the essence of the idea? Can I extract the principle of the idea? Can I make analogical-metaphorical connections with the principle and something dissimilar to create something tangible? How can I use the essence of the idea to imagine a more realistic one?

And in the last, in the third room he turned out to be a critic and reviewed all the ideas and tried to punch holes in them by playing the devil’s advocate. To be the critic, ask: How do I really feel about it? Is this the best I can do? What can make it better? Does this make sense? How does it look to a customer? Is it worth my time to work on this idea? Can I improve it? So, the Dreamer is the visionary who dreams up ideas, the Realist - the pragmatic producer who makes things happen, and the Critic, the eagle-eyed evaluator who refines what the Dreamer and Realist

produce.

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