The Paradigm of the Fulfilled Entrepreneur Super Star Success
There’s Something Larger That We Strive For
Something At Our Core and In Our Spirit!
IT’S OUR GREATER, CREATIVE SELF
What does creativity mean to you? To most people, they refer to the arts– writing and music for example. But creativity applies to everything – anything new, anything that has never been created before, stems from the creative faculty.
What are your goals, your work, and your hobbies? Can you see how creation plays a role in that? Scientists, engineers – they create things that have never been seen before. Fighters improvise in battle – they moves in ways that he has never done before.
How do we truly ‘tap into’ the creative faculty inside us?
True creation doesn’t come from the conscious mind. The creative faculty lies somewhere from beyond our analytical, logical brain. Various psychological studies have attributed creativity to our awareness, personality traits, chance, and even divine intervention.
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I don’t want to get into a debate about that, so let’s stay focused on the practical aspects. There are two broad types of creativity. Different disciplines call them different names. I’ll go with Napoleon Hill, author of “Think and Grow Rich” , who calls them Creative Imagination VS Synthetic Imagination. |
What is Creative Imagination?
Creative imagination, which lies beyond our logical mind and our ego, is where all truly new ideas come from. When a scientist invents something the world has never seen before, he is using creative imagination. Think of it as raw clay.
Hill describes Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Elmer Gates as brilliant inventors who learnt to tap into creative imagination. Mr. Edison, for example, was described as having tried out more than 10,000 ideas for his light bulb using his synthetic imagination alone, and they all failed. It was only when he tapped into his creative imagination that he managed to perfect the light bulb.
What is Synthetic Imagination?
This is the imagination borne of education and experience. You use your mind to change things around, look at them from a different angle, or rearrange existing material to form something “fresh”. But nothing truly new ever came from synthetic imagination.
How much of what you do has never been seen before (by you, at least)? When you write a new book, are you re-organising stories or legends you’ve read before, replacing characters, chopping and changing? When you compose a new piece of music, are you really only modifying one of your favourite childhood songs? When you do a new marketing campaign, are you merely putting your own spin on a successful campaign already used by another company?
Most modern creativity books available are actually focusing on your Synthetic Imagination. But there is nothing wrong with this; in fact it is a vital step. An original idea often needs to be shaped by education, logical thinking, and experience in order to form a finished product.
Take the design of the blog you are on, for instance. It began as an original idea in my head, as the raw clay of creation. I began to use my synthetic imagination to shape the clay. As I began to transfer the idea out of my head into my computer, I used my design skills to cut it down to what is possible with current technology. I shaped the vague idea by adding colors according to existing color theory. I moved text and pictures into certain locations based on what I know of human computer interaction. It is only then it becomes a finished product.
Let me digress a little bit here. All ideas, all goals, everything we want to achieve begins as an idea in our mental realms, and is shaped by worldly hands. Everything that man-kind EVER created began as a thought.
In this video, Abraham Hicks discusses “The Paradigm of Creativity”
How to tap into your paradigm of creativity – your creative imagination?
So, how do you tap into this creative imagination? Take a page from Elmer Gates. Napoleon Hill describes how Gates, holder of over 200 patents, used to “sit for ideas”. He sat in his room, sound-proof and with controlled lighting, with pen and paper. Then he contemplated whatever he was working on, as much as he knows of the topic, and waited for ideas in the form of inspiration and hunches to appear, and he began writing them all down.
It sounds spooky at first right, something like using a ouija board, but this is how most people, in the creative fields of art, writing, design, etc work - whether they know it by name or not.
Inspiration comes from beyond the mind, perhaps from your subconscious. It flashes into the conscious mind when the conscious mind is ready to receive it (i.e. being in an egoless “do” state).
This works even better when the mind is stimulated. Hill gives a list of stimuli that include:
1. Love
3. Burning desire of fame, power, or money
4. Music
5. Friendship
6. A master mind alliance (a group who helps one another achieve goals)
7. Auto-suggestion (repeated affirmations)
I work best with motivational style songs, playing them when I first settle in to do work, say on my computer – they stimulate my mind and excite me. For me, at other times it’s silence. Some types of music irritate me and slow down my work. However, I often get my best inspiration when I ‘far away’ from my work space. Sometimes in the shower (believe it or not), in the process of falling asleep, walking on and by the beach, sitting in an open park space and driving long distances.
My most successful ideas in business have come when I am in the shower, or as I’m drifting to sleep, and also sometimes when I first wake up.
It is well known to hypnotists that your subconscious mind is most accessible when you are sleeping, moving into, or moving out of sleep. This explains why most creative people have patterns or habits like rituals, or superstitions as they work – because they are a form of stimuli.
When you are doing it
When you are seeking out new ideas, use a journal or something you can write on. Keyboards don’t work so well, you often think so fast your typing fingers can’t keep up. You also need to draw and scribble sometimes. Write down even the most absurd ideas. Or something else I have done to create alot of my visual perspectives, is to ‘draw it out’ and believe it or not, I use Powerpoint to do that. It has an incredible ‘creation’ facility built in to it.
To get started, you want to identify what ‘experiences’ you are in when ideas present to you. Then, being aware of that, distinguish between those experiences that help you connect with some of the best ideas you have had and of course, then make creating that ‘space’ a priority in your life. If the shower presents a creative space for you, dont hesitate to hop in under the water in the middle of the day – if it will help you create and even innovate ideas you can effectively use.
The flow of ideas into actions that lead to profits and prosperity will be another theme that runs throughout the live event “The Entrepreneur Super Star Intensive”. If you have not secured your seat yet, you can book now as well as find out a whole lot more about the 5 Break-through Blueprints revealed at the event - for you to have your best year yet!
See you there!
Jen xo
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