Solution to sleep problem. A Crash Course on Creativity assignment. BAKERS TEAM

1. Sleep problem
Possible solutions
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2. Activities you can do
1. Buy a super hero costume and patrol your neighbourhood
2. Change habits
3. Change your shift at work
4. Clean your car
5. Clean your house
6. Close your window
7. Cool your room (if hot)
8. Dance
9. Do the chores you don’t like to do (ironing, …)
10. Don't bother, go party
11. Drive during the night
12. Eat a potaje for dinner
13. Eat ice cream
14. Exercise during the day Venture lab - A Crash Course on Creativity
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3. Activities you can do
15. Go to the beach, get a break
16. Go to the cinema, watch a foreign film that cannot be understood
17. Look for solutions at Venture Lab
18. Memorize the Dictionary. One letter each day.
19. Read boring books in bed
20. Read fairytales (or better, find someone to read you some)
21. Read lists of 100 solutions for your problem
22. Read this list over and over… and try the 1st idea, then the 2nd
and so on!
23. Run 2 hours and finish at least 3 hours before going to bed
24. Smoke hash before getting to bed
25. Try to write a book, you may not sleep, but could get rich
26. Volunteer for sleep studies
27. Watch boring movies Venture lab - A Crash Course on Creativity
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28. Watch movies in a foreing language where they speak a lot Bakers TEAM

4. Change your enviroment
29. Don't have kids
30. Don't sleep at home, find a boring job.
31. Find a job during the night
32. If you have kids, leave home
33. Isolate your room
34. Kill your neighbours dog
35. Move house
36. Move to the countryside
37. Paint the walls of your room in black and turn off every light
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5. Act on your habits /
comfort
38. Buy a new bed
39. Buy a new pillow
40. Don't sleep in your bed, a couch would do.
41. Don't wear pijama
42. Drink a hot beverage
43. Drink alcohol. Lots of
44. Drink lime tea the whole day
45. Find a partner to hold
46. Get a friend to talk to
47. Get another hour for sleeping
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Professor Tina Seelig, Stanford University
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6. Act on your habits /
comfort
48. Go to bed earlier
49. Have a long hot bath prior going to bed
50. Heat your room (if cold)
51. listen to classical music in bed
52. Listen to lullaby songs… at a lower speed than normal
53. Listen to soft music
54. Listen to the radio, to something totally unatractive to you
55. Mastubate in bed
56. Put something on your ears to reduce noise
57. Sleep more often
58. Wake up later
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7. Find external help
59. Ask someone (Mom or Dad ;-) to cuddle you as when you were a
baby (it worked then).
60. Ask your partner if she / he wants “mambo”… (you may not sleep
for a while afterwards, but you’ll have fun for a while)
61. Call a doctor
62. Find a sleepless association
63. Get a medicine
64. Get a psychologist
65. Get hypnotized
66. Get the drugs that they prescribe
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8. Mental work
67. Bet you cannot do it
68. Didn't work? Get a psychiatrist
69. Do Yoga
70. Don't do anything active from 8pm
71. Don't give up. Keep trying
72. Don't move at all
73. Don't sleep at all, you will eventually get there.
74. Don't sleep at night, do siesta!
75. Don't think, concentrate on the sound of your heart
76. Don't think, concentrate on your breath
77. Don't think, count (sheeps)
78. Don't think, get drugs
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9. Mental work
79. Don't think, watch TV (wildlife documentaries in a foreign language
are trerrific!)
80. Follow a pendulum
81. Forget about it... you don't sleep, so what?
82. Forget about sleep as something you must do for several hours in
a row. Instead, split it along the day: 15 minutes micro-naps all day
long will do the same!
83. Practice Zen
84. Pray. You may not fall into sleep, but will be saved.
85. Pretend that you are sleeping, no one will notice
86. Refrain from any intellectual activity
87. Relaaaaaaaaaaax
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10. Mental work
88. Repeat your name 10000 times
89. Split yor sleeping time into bits
90. Stop drinking that coffee!
91. Stop watching horror movies!
92. Take valerian pills along the day
93. Think in another language
94. Think of a blank sheet of paper
95. Think of a thousand sheep
96. Try to recall a long, sad poem
97. Try to recall the list of roman emperors
98. Whatever happens, keep your eyes shut
99. Wish it and look for a shooting star
100.Yawn
101.Yawn again Venture lab - A Crash Course on Creativity
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