Creative Awareness

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Exercise: You are a connoisseur of sports. Take each of the terms on the right, commonly used as adjectives and attributes for wine, and re-apply them to sports and athletes. Write a new, contextual sports definition for each and use in a sentence. 

Why: Wine tasting culture is admired and ridiculed for its colorful and sometimes silly adjectives. But they have created a wonderfully expressive and compelling vernacular for an often subtle and complex phenomenon. By using this terminology to create your own lexicon for an entirely different subject - sports fandom - you are testing your creative awareness.

Enhances Creative Awareness which includes fine-tuning alertness to aesthetics, empathy, and drinking the world around you.

Example:

The wine term “Spicy”  refers to how it smells like various spices, ranging from pepper to cinnamon, to 5 spice or cloves. 

New Sports Use

SPICY

Unpredictable, innovative, out - of - the - box play. Can extend to on/off - field personality. “Shawn Hopkins isn’t the strongest 2nd baseman on paper, but he’s spicy, he gets his own team riled up, and gets in the head of opposing base runners.” 

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