Sustaining Creative Flow and AI Collaboration

This unit teaches students to manage emotions, habits, and cognitive states to maintain sustained creative productivity while responsibly partnering with generative AI. Students practice mindfulness, sleep and habit strategies, abstract and associative thinking, and practical AI prompting to support ideation and iterative work in entrepreneurial settings.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze personal emotional triggers and the empathy gap to identify how affective states influence decision-making and team interactions in entrepreneurial contexts
• Apply emotion regulation, mindfulness, sleep-hygiene, and habit-design techniques to create and implement a documented plan that improves individual creative stamina over a multi-week project
• Demonstrate collaborative use of generative AI for ideation and refinement by constructing effective prompts, iterating outputs, and integrating AI-generated material while addressing ethical and originality considerations
• Evaluate and employ abstract and associative thinking exercises to produce and compare multiple novel business solutions, documenting methods used and the resulting idea variations