Math Survival Guide: Do You Want to be Successful? 05
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2) The ability to think & figure things out Thinking and figuring things out isn’t just for math geeks, science nerds and business gurus. These things are for people in the creative arts too!
Working out a dance routine requires planning and thinking. What moves and steps do you want to include? In what order should you put them? What kinds of transitions will give the best flow? How will you make it all work with the music? If the first run through doesn’t work, how are you going to fix it? That’s a lot of planning and problem solving.
Writing takes a lot of thinking too, especially, if it’s fiction. This may surprise you, but fiction takes more planning than non-fiction. All the characters have to be planned out ahead of time. In screen writing, these characters are even given elaborate background stories to motivate their actions and behaviors. The main story line and flow all have to be planned out ahead of time. How will it all fit together? Does it all make sense? Will the reader be able to follow everything? Did you telegraph the surprise ending too much? Will the reader figure it out too soon or see it coming?
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