Generate 40 Ideas Now to Become An Influential Master and A Resourceful Entrepreneur | by Fahri Karakas | Aug, 2022

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This is a new generative thinking series titled “400 Ideas”. It is a hackathon that you can finish by spending half an hour every day. Over the next 10 days, you will be generating 400 ideas in total. On each day, you will receive two poster challenges each of which will enable you to create 20 ideas on a given topic.

This is Day 6, and you can find Day 1 here, Day 2 here, Day 3 here, Day 4 here, and Day 5 here.

Your goal in this challenge is to come up with 20 specific topics or categories that you can master and monopolize.

• In which fields can you create outstanding value?
• What are the niche categories you can own, invent, or monopolize?
• What are some of the topics or fields that will excite you the most?
• Make a list of the potential areas you would like to contribute to.
• Describe your contribution or success story in this category in one sentence.

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Here is how I did this exercise:

• Technology, Futurism, Future Jobs, 2030, and Creativity: I would like to develop new perspectives on how cutting-edge technologies will transform our future. I want to write articles on related topics such as the Fear of Not Keeping up (FONKU).
• Unleashing Your Full Potential and Creativity through Small Steps: Exercises, Doodles, Habits, Perspectives, and Reflections. I would like to create articles, templates, digital products, and books toward this aim.
• My YouTube channel (in Turkish): This is where I can be 100% myself and inspire people interested in creativity and imagination. My quote on the banner of my channel: “The most valuable asset is your boundless imagination.”
• Learning on TikTok: I want to create an engaging and entertaining format on TikTok and YouTube shorts. In each 1-minute episode, I pose a puzzle or a question about global trends, new technologies, business news, popular culture, mental models, or the Zeitgeist. I hope to create a fun and engaging format for short teaching videos. #puzzleoftheday #learningonTikTok
• Being a top writer in Future and Creativity on Medium: I am currently a top writer in the fields of creativity and the future. I want to enhance my global reputation as a writer, thinker, futurist, and content creator across the fields of business, arts, personal development, creativity, asset creation, and the future.
• Becoming A Master for Inspiration: I want to be known as an inspiring master and teacher who provides positive perspectives and learning experiences for people from diverse walks of life. Towards this goal, I am creating a training program and a book centered on The Cube Experience. I have created a workshop on Eventbrite. I will write a book next. The title of the book will be: “The Cube: Find Your Strengths, Unleash Your Creativity, and Create Your Assets”.
• Creating The Largest Bank of Creativity Exercises for Individuals: I want to create hundreds of fresh, inspiring, easy, and engaging creativity exercises. I will turn these into a series of books and digital products. Some tentative titles: “30 Days of Creativity: 30 Powerful Exercises That Will Inspire You”, “The Creative Gym: Practice Your Creativity 20 Minutes A Day”, and “Creative Exercise Bank: 99 Outstanding Creative Exercises”.
• Creating The Best Courses and/or Learning Experiences in the World on Creativity and Asset Creation: I want to design and create the best modules and learning experiences for individuals interested in unleashing their creativity and creating their own creative assets (such as creating their Instagram brands, YouTube channels, Medium blogs, TikToks, books, music, products, or experiences). I will create hackathons, workshops, courses, mini-courses, exercises, and learning experiences focused on creativity and asset creation. “Asset Creation Hackathon: Create Your Assets in 54 Hours”.
• Doodling For Fun, Creativity, Learning, and Asset Creation: I want to inspire individuals in their own journeys of doodling and notebook keeping. I typically spend a minimum of 20 minutes doodling and 40 minutes of notebook-keeping every day. I want to act as a role model and guide people with simple but delightful doodle exercises. I will create e-books such as “The Doodle Professor: I Will Teach You How to Doodle” and “The Magic Notebook: How Notebooks Transform Your Life and Help You Achieve 10x”. I want to create live doodling experiences to capture unfolding chaos, improvising, surfing on uncertainty, and all that jazz.
• Creating Your Renaissance: I am passionate about the fields of personal development, creativity, entrepreneurship, productivity, writing, asset creation, learning, and investing. I will create an ecosystem of e-books and digital products on GumRoad on these topics.
• Rethinking Universities as Places of Imagination: I want to create a new model of the universities of the future — a singular vision based on imagination. In this model, the curriculum is centered on invention and creativity. Degrees are designed as journeys of exploration and experimentation. Classes are designed as imagination experiments. Failures are redefined as failures of imagination. Successes are redefined as new acts and processes of creation. Exams are redesigned as bootcamps of creation. Professors act as mentors and champions for journeys of creation and entrepreneurship. Departments and disciplines are eliminated to imagine new multidisciplinary areas to solve complex real-world problems, such as climate change or inequality. I want to transform the future of business education and universities by becoming a champion for creativity and asset creation for young people.
• Writing for Everyone: I want to inspire everyone to be involved in micro-writing activities every day. My goal is to explore the things I love, experiment with the skills that I care about, and develop myself as a successful global writer. While doing this, I want to inspire and empower individuals in their own writing journeys. I will design easy writing exercises and templates for this goal so that everyone can practice their creativity and writing in just 5 minutes.
• “1$ Manifesto: Why Starting Small Is Beautiful”: This is my new manifesto and book. I want to formulate the principles and the mindset that allows us to reach our full potential — one minor step at a time.
• “Your Long-Term Game: Compound Yourself in 7 Years”: I am very much interested in the concept of compounding and its implications for investing, personal finance, learning, entrepreneurship, and skill development. I believe everyone can become an artist, an innovator, an entrepreneur, a content creator, and a writer through consistent daily practice. I want to be a role model in this regard and document my progress on a daily basis. Since the pandemic, I have created more than 800 doodles, 800 videos, and 520 Medium articles with this mindset. I will continue my journey in the next 5 years and document every step along the way. My hope is to build a formidable content empire until 2027. I will tell this story in a book and in a workshop. I am very much excited by this project — we will see:)
• “The Circle: Create Your Renaissance”: Connected to my goal just above, I want to create a personal philosophy and mindset centered on multidisciplinary thinking, writing, value creation, and imagination. I call it ‘The Circle’ philosophy, and I am still trying to delineate its principles and mental models.
• “Do NOT Wait for Inspiration: How to Start NOW”: This will be a book and a manifesto. Our lives are too short for procrastinating, and we have to act now in the pursuit of our dreams. How do we achieve immediate and massive action, especially if we feel unmotivated and powerless? This is my passion, and I will create easy strategies that we can implement in our daily lives.
• “BLOSSOM: Enrich Your Life With the Sheer Power of Your Imagination”: This will be my book and workshop on unleashing the power of imagination and curiosity in our daily lives. It will include many examples and practices that will unleash your full potential and creativity.
• Fahri Karakas Productions: I want to position myself as a one-person entertainment personality who can inspire hundreds of thousands in the long term. I want to learn about and experiment with entertainment and show business (stand-up comedy, acting, screenwriting, creative writing, storytelling, improv, etc.)
• In Praise of Micro-entrepreneurship: I believe everyone can be a micro-entrepreneur, even if they do not have enough time or money. I want to act as a role model and go on micro-entrepreneurial journeys while working full-time. I want to create new inventions and content in the fields of work, learning, careers, creativity, content creation, storytelling, entrepreneurship, and asset creation. This brings me to the next challenge. Since I want to expand on this, I wanted to create a new challenge in micro-entrepreneurship.

Your goal in this challenge is to come up with 20 micro-entrepreneurial journeys you want to go on. Think about how you can create value through new business ideas, products, services, side hustles, solutions, models, or inventions.

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For example, here is how I did this exercise (see my list of micro-entrepreneurial projects):

• 1000 YouTube Videos: Create an influential YouTube channel with 10,000 subscribers: I spend about 5 hours a week creating and uploading my YouTube videos. I created more than 800 videos in 2.5 years. I am hoping to continue this journey.
• 1000 Medium Articles: Create a Medium portfolio of 1000 articles and 10,000 subscribers: I spend about 8–12 hours each week writing my articles. I have already created more than 520 videos in 2.5 years. I will continue this journey for the long term.
• Digital Product Ecosystem: Create a portfolio of 50 digital products on GumRoad: I spend about 1.5 hours each week towards this goal. I have already created several digital products and toolkits since March. I will continue creating 1–2 new products each month.
• Innovative Books: Create at least 7 books and start selling them: This year has been big for me in books since I have already created two books (99 Creative Adventures and The Squash) and I am working on the third one (The Cube). I am also working on two more books (one on self-coaching, another on doodles) with my co-authors.
• Innovative Teaching: Create an innovative portfolio of cutting-edge online courses, workshops, and training programs that will change students’ lives for the better. I am not sure about which platform I will use — I am considering Skillshare and Maven now.
• Online Courses: Create online short courses and workshops that will inspire students from all walks of life. I am testing my first concept here.
• Executive Training and Workshops: Engage in executive training, consulting, and speaking arrangements in different parts of the world (and online). I will start exciting collaborations with top institutions and universities in this regard. I am open to mutually beneficial proposals and collaborations to create new programs or seminars that will truly inspire students.
• Sharing Economy ventures: I am already working as a micro-entrepreneur in the sharing economy, such as Airbnb, and other entrepreneurial hustles. I hope to continue these hustles since I love meeting people and creating exceptional value for them.
• Risky and Funky New Economy Investments: Create a long-term portfolio of crypto-currencies and NFTs (including investments in the Metaverse, Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.). I am still new in this domain, but I would love to learn further and accelerate my journey.
• Portfolio Investments: Create a long-term investment portfolio of diverse stocks and potentially increase it over time. Again, I am very new in this domain, but I am a very enthusiastic learner and a value investor focused on the long term.
• 10,000 Doodles: Create a portfolio of 10000 doodles and doodle art over the long term (exhibitions, digital products, pictures, artwork, NFTs, etc.). I will never stop doodling since it brings me such enormous joy. I want to spread this joy to thousands of people.
• X Factor Journeys: Use my creativity and entrepreneurial skills to create exciting and surprising things based on my passions and curiosities (X-factor projects that are unknown, but will emerge in time).
• Content Creation for 2030: I want to act as a think tank and thought leader addressing how we should prepare our students for the workplaces and jobs of the future. I want to address the rate of non-linear technological changes and acceleration, and how we are clueless in preparing for such a non-linear future. I have written an article on FONKU (fear of not keeping up) on this issue. I hope to continue thinking and writing on similar topics. I want to be a thought leader in the fields of creativity, jobs, and the future. In particular, I am curious about how individuals should reinvent themselves to adapt to the non-linear changes of the 2020s.
• Creative GYM for Everyone: I will establish a digital creative gym where everyone can exercise their creativity on a daily basis. I want to address the lack of creativity in our lives. I want to inspire and empower everyone to be creative. Everyone is creative and can tap into their creativity through simple activities, such as doodling, writing, video-making, and notebook-keeping. I want to provide a large library of exercises and resources for individuals interested in practicing their creativity. I would love to create an abundance of imagination and creativity in our lives. Towards this goal, I have written a book featuring 99 creative adventures. You can read more here.
• Academia for Prosperity and Change: I believe in the power of multidisciplinary creative thinking on future issues that we are facing. I believe universities and academics should be much more proactive in creating new ways of thinking about complex problems that face us in the next few decades (create new multidisciplinary models, partnerships, practice projects, internships, collaborations, etc.) Related to this goal, I want to be a champion of developing creative and entrepreneurial capabilities for academics. I want to create workshops, blogs, and resources to support this aim.
• Academic Writing Enterprise: I would like to put an end to my writer’s block in the academic field. Be ready academia, here I come:) I want to conduct innovative and high-impact qualitative research on topics I am curious about.
• Financial Independence: Ultimately, I want to address the problem of salary dependence and financial fragility. In order to solve this issue, I want to act as a role model and work as an entrepreneur of new ideas in the fields of work, learning, careers, creativity, content creation, storytelling, micro-entrepreneurship, and asset creation.
• Zeitgeist and Storytelling: We are lacking grand narratives to make sense of our times. I want to address this problem by understanding the Zeitgeist of our times through the lenses of technology, cinema, TV, music, social media, pop culture, comedy, fashion, science fiction, and entertainment. I want to use multidisciplinary and futurist perspectives to understand social, cultural, economic, and technological trends.
• Asset Creation for Everyone: I want to address the issue of lack of assets in our lives. My mission is to help individuals create their own assets for the long term. I have written several articles on this issue, and I hope to continue creating new resources and training programs on asset creation. Find sample articles here, here, and here.
• Self-Coaching: I want to help people to deal with their negative voices. A sample article is here. I want to create new tools and resources for curing problems in one’s life. Many of these tools will be notebook-based and will involve reflective writing. I want to empower individuals in coaching themselves and solving their own problems. I have written some articles about this mission and I am hoping to create more resources. Sample articles here and here.

It is your turn now. Do the exercises now — it will be very rewarding for you. In 20 minutes, you will write down 20+20 ideas. As a result, you will practice generative thinking and strengthen your creative muscles.

I will continue this exercise series over the next 10 days. On each day, you will receive a straightforward challenge where you will create 40 new ideas in 20 minutes.

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