Course curriculum

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    Update – Friday, June 10, 2022

    • Update – Tuesday, July 12, 2022

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    1. Welcome to Sweathead

    • Sweathead Orientation

    • Help Me Help You - Short Survey

    • Quick Quiz - Take It

    • How The Camp Will Work

    • What We'll Cover

    • Reflect Before Passing Go

    • Intend What You Do

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    2. W.T.F.N.O.W.?

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    3. Play Don't Run

    • You Run Too Much

    • Two Can Run That Game

    • Where Did Play Go?

    • What Why Run?

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    4. Playtime

    • Play Now

    • Who Are Your People?

    • Time For Some Action

    • Reality Can Come Apart

    • Emotions Have Opposites

    • Give Props

    • Funny Freakout

    • That Made-Up Life

    • Your Story

    • A Thread Apart

    • Ha Ha Ugly Cry

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    5. Life Words

    • Life Words

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    Meaning Is Yours To Make

    • Meaning Is Yours To Make

    • Flour So Unexpected

    • Jell-o So Unexpected

    • Bubbles So Unexpected

    • Flour Connections

    • Bubble Connections

    • Jell-O Connections

    • Emotion School, Part I

    • Emotion School, Part II

    • Quiz - Can You Make Meaning?

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    6. Clarity Is When You Say It Is

    • Clarity Is When You Say It Is

    • What's Clear?

    • Decision Wrestle

    • Clear Action

    • Never Would I, Penguin

    • Never Would I, Sloth

    • Respond

    • Make It Clear

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    7. Truth Is Disobedient

    • Truth Is Disobedient

    • Right Feels

    • Wrong Feels

    • Mind Done Changed

    • Disobedient Truths Start With "No"

    • Supposing Otherwise

    • A Sign To Disobey

    • Ads For Disobedience

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    8. Strategy Words

    • Strategy Words In Parallel

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    Ideas Are First And Forever

    • Ideas Are First And Forever

    • The Secret About Ideas

    • A Thought About Ideas

    • Art Makes Words

    • Make 10 Ideas

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    9. Fog Is Clarity Coming

    • Fog Is Clarity Coming

    • Exercise - Draw Your Fog

    • Exercise - Write Your Thoughts

    • Exercise - Think Business Idea

    • Exercise - First Principles

    • Exercise - Business Is For Penguins

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    10. Ideas Live To Fight

    • Ideas Live To Fight

    • Survival Ideas

    • Threatening Ideas

    • Future Ideas

    • Help Ideas

    • How Will You Change?

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    11. So Far - An Assignment

    • So Far - An Assignment

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    12. Not All Thoughts Are Ideas

    • Not All Thoughts Are Ideas

    • Write Seven Thoughts

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    13. All Ideas Cross The Line

    • All Ideas Cross The Line

    • Pizza Words

    • Banana Words

    • Ten Ideas

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    14. Mental Workout - Ideas

    • Mental Workout - Ideas

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    15. Ideas And Their Adjectives

    • Silent Adjectives Are Slow Deaths

    • List Your Ideas

    • Ideas Come Big And Small

    • What's A Big Idea?

    • 5 Big Ideas

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    16. Every Idea Has A Type

    • Every Idea Has A Type

    • Find One Of Each

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    17. The Fastest Way To Understand Insight

    • This Class Is All Yours

    • The Fastest Way To Understand Insight

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    18. How To Write An Idea

    • How To Write An Idea

    • Write 10 Ideas

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    19. Test Yourself

    • Test Yourself

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    20. The Four Points Framework

    • The Four Points Framework - An Overview

    • The Four Points Framework - The New York Knicks

    • The Four Points Framework - Bonus Examples

    • Four-Point 5 Ads

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    21. Three Briefs

    • Brief 1 - Sell Cars

    • Brief 2 - Sell Your Suburb

    • Brief 3 - Sell Your Critic

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    22. Problems Are Worth Having

    • Problems Are Worth Having

    • Write Problems

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    23. Tools For Problems

    • Winning Happens High

    • Dump-A-Problem

    • Dump Some Problems

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    24. S.W.O.T.

    • S.W.O.T.

    • S.W.O.T. Practice

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    25. Problem Behind The Problem

    • Problem Behind The Problem

    • 5 Whys

    • Problem Behind The Problem

    • Choose A Problem

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    26. Impostors Belong, Too

    • Impostors Belong, Too

    • Techniques

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    27. Problems As Advantage

    • Problems As Advantage

    • Example - Plaid Pantry

    • Example - Zara

    • Example - Corn Flakes

    • Your Turn

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    28. I Don't Get It

    • I Don't Get It

    • Get It

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    29. You Make Me Laugh

    • You Make Me Laugh

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    30. Insights Are Survival

    • Insights Are Survival

    • Confessions

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    31. Defining "Insight"

    • Defining Insights

    • How Insights Open Problems

    • But Here's The Thing About That

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    32. The Difficulty With Insights

    • The Difficulty With Insights

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    33. How Insights Work

    • How Insights Work

    • Hunches

    • New Worlds

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    34. How Insights Happen

    • How Insights Happen

    • Snorts And Giggles

    • Open This Problem

    • Art Loves Insights

    • Watch For Insights

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    35. Questions That Fetch Insights

    • Questions That Fetch Insights

    • An Approach To Interviews

    • Interview Structure

    • Loaded Questions

    • Don't Forget These Things

    • Write Questions

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    36. Asking Questions

    • Interviews

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    37. How To Write An Insight

    • How To Write An Insight

    • Find Insights Like These

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    38. Write These Insights

    • Write These Insights

    • Examples Of How To Write These Insights

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    39. Analyze This

    • Analyze This

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    40. How To Help A Workshop Write An Insight

    • This Workshop Is Mine*

    • Working A Workshop

    • Rewrite Your Insights

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    41. Mischief And Rejection

    • Mischief And Rejection

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    42. Writing Is Rewriting

    • Writing Is Rewriting

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    43. Advantage Is Yours To Give

    • Advantage Is Yours To Give

    • Make Your Argument

    • Support These Arguments

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    44. The Pyramid Of Advantage

    • The Pyramid Of Advantage

    • Pyramid Yourself

    • Pyramid Someone Else

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    45. The Benefit Ladder

    • The Benefit Ladder

    • So Many Benefits

    • Love Ladder

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    46. The Product World

    • The Product World

    • Map A World

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    47. The Decision Funnel

    • The Decision Funnel

    • Funnel Your Decisions

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    48. Funnel These Interviews

    • Funnel These Interviews

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    49. Define The Advantage

    • Define The Advantage

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    50. Path To Purchase

    • Path To Purchase - An Overview

    • Path To Purchase - Models

    • Path To Purchase - Travel, An Overview

    • Path To Purchase - Travel, In Detail

    • Make A Path To Purchase

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    51. Lose Yourself In Fiction

    • Lose Yourself In Fiction

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    52. Strategy And Ideas

    • Strategy Work Is Creative Work

    • Sit With It

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    53. What Strategy Is

    • What Strategy Is

    • Your Operating System

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    54. What Strategy Is Not

    • What Strategy Is Not

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    55. Lone Wolf, Are You Really?

    • Lone Wolf, Are You Really?

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    56. Mental Workout

    • Mental Workout - Ideas, Again

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    57. How Other People Block Strategy

    • How Other People Block Strategy

    • Your Strategy For Strategy

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    58. How To Know When Strategy Has Happened

    • How To Know When Strategy Has Happened

    • The Rubric

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    59. Ways To Write Strategy

    • Ways To Write A Strategy

    • Strategy Statements

    • Write Strategy Statements

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    60. Single-Minded Propositions

    • Single-Minded Propositions

    • Single-Minded Propositions - Examples

    • Write Some Propositions

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    61. Brand Essence

    • Brand Essence

    • Exercises in Essence

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    62. CEO Announcements

    • CEO Announcements

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    63. Purpose Statements

    • Purpose Statements

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    64. Vision And Mission Statements

    • Vision And Mission Statements

    • Your Turn

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    65. Strategy Stories

    • Strategy Stories - Overview

    • Strategy Stories - Drambuie

    • Write A Strategy Story

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    66. Creative Briefs

    • Creative Briefs

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    67. Strategy Shapes

    • Strategy Shapes

    • Make A Brand

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    68. Press Release Headlines

    • Press Release Headlines

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    69. Positioning Statements - For Only Because

    • For Only Because

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    70. Write Why

    • Give Yourself One Page

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    71. Communications Frameworks

    • Comms Frameworks - Principles

    • Comms Frameworks - Models

    • Take These Ideas To Channels

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    72. Callebaut Chocolate - Explore The Problem

    • 72. Callebaut Chocolate - Explore The Problem

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    73. Callebaut Chocolate - Four Points

    • Callebaut Chocolate - Insights, Advantages, and Strategy Statements

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    74. Callebaut Chocolate - Strategy Story And Brief

    • 74. Callebaut Chocolate - Strategy Story And Brief

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    75. Callebaut Chocolate - Comms Framework

    • Callebaut Chocolate - Comms Framework

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    76. What Does A Creative Culture Sound Like?

    • What Does A Creative Culture Sound Like?

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    77. The Psychology Of Creativity

    • The Psychology Of Creativity

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    78. and 79. Tether Yourself To Yourself

    • Tether Yourself To Yourself

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    80. Sell This Non-Alcoholic Gin

    • Monday Zero Alcohol Gin

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    81. Make Washington DC A State

    • Make Washington DC A State

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    82. Write A Short Essay For The Internet

    • Write A Short Essay For The Internet

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    83. Stories Make Bridges

    • Find Your Stories

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    Publishing Takes You Public

    • 84. Headline It

    • 85. Outline It And Write It

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    86. Monogamy Makes Words Mean

    • Monogamy Makes Words Mean

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    87. Writing Breaks Open Safes

    • Writing Breaks Open Safes

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    88. TikTok

    • TikTok - A Brief

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    89. Selling Isn't Cheap

    • Selling Isn't Cheap

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    Patience Is Long Enough

    • 90. Patience Is Long Enough

    • 91. Fantasy Four Points

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    92. Sell Strategy

    • Sell Strategy

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    93. Quiz Time Once Again

    • Quiz Time Once Again

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    94. Empathy Is A Powerful Burden

    • Empathy Is A Powerful Burden

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    95. Empathy For Your Fellow Creative Minds

    • Empathy For Your Fellow Creative Minds

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    96. Strategy Leadership

    • Strategy Leadership

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    97. Save The Postal System

    • Save The Postal System

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    98. S.M.I.T. And S.M.A.T. - The Power Of One

    • S.M.I.T. And S.M.A.T. - The Power Of One

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    99. Strategy Portfolios

    • Strategy Portfolios

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    100. Takeaways From 100 Classes

    • Takeaways From 100 Classes