NLP email training 48

Quote

"Imagination is more important than knowledge!"

Albert Einstein

Creativity technique

A true NLP practitioner is very careful in their change work with themselves and others. They always consider possible consequences of their actions in both positive and negative aspects in advance. We can learn a lot from this approach, which we call the Ecology Check.

Exercise for This Week

When you look around, most of what you see is likely a product of human creativity in some way: books, furniture, computers, etc.

Creativity is generally seen as something individual, as a talent. We usually learn creative skills on our own, in our own way. Creative people are mostly unaware of the strategies they use to create something. NLP provides a set of tools to help you improve and expand your creativity.

Discover your own micro and macro levels of creativity. The micro aspect concerns your thoughts and experiences, which form the basis of your creativity. The macro aspect deals with your interaction with other people – individuals or groups.

The number of possible connections in your brain exceeds the number of particles in the universe. Are you using this potential? Targeted lateral thinking helps you solve problems and achieve goals. It is also healthy and fun.

Task: "What can I do with the materials currently available to me to create or produce something new within five to ten minutes?"

Use whatever is around you and take five to ten minutes to create any structure. Then examine what patterns, strategies, principles, and mental processes you used.

Questions for self-reflection

1. How did you decide what you wanted to do? Was it more of a random process or did you think about it?
2. How did you know you were finished? Were you satisfied with the result?
3. How exactly did you proceed with the creation? Did you just start changing something, or did you have a clear idea of the result?

This exercise is about getting a first general overview. You should take a closer look at your own creativity process.

Supplementary links

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Creativity and age >>>
Here you will find information about the age dependency of creativity.

Metaphor of the Week
The statue of Michelangelo

One day, Michelangelo was commissioned by a wealthy family to create a statue of extraordinary beauty. He then searched for a suitable marble block. After a long time, he found a block almost completely overgrown with weeds in a side street, which had been forgotten there. Michelangelo had this marble block brought to his studio by his workers.

Then he began to carve the statue of David from the stone. It took him two whole years. And it took another two years to finish the statue by grinding and polishing.

When the statue was ceremoniously unveiled, many people came to admire the incomparable beauty of David. Michelangelo was asked how he had managed to create such a beautiful statue.

The sculptor said: "David had always been there. I just had to remove the excess marble around him."

Book Recommendation

Royal Road to Creativity. Power training for creative thinking
Authors: Michael Luther & Jutta Gründonner

Short Description:
In three steps, the book offers a guideline to discover one's own creativity and increase personal flexibility in professional and private life. It provides exciting background knowledge on the effective use of the brain. Self-tests, an easily learnable power creativity strategy, and the 30-minute manager as a quick start provide valuable information on how brain-friendly thinking works and what conditions unleash innovative forces.

A unique mix of creativity techniques, games, and brain teasers invites you to enrich your personal repertoire of professional tools. The authors offer a convincing mix of classic creativity techniques, exciting games, tricky brain teasers, and magical fantasy journeys – with this book, you open a treasure chest full of ideas. Beautifully designed and wonderfully illustrated.

Here the book can be ordered: Now at Amazon

General information

Archive
We have created an archive with past lessons and links. There you will also find this lesson again as a webpage in HTML. There are always some email programs that display strange characters and do not receive clean emails in either our text or HTML format. Use the online archive to read the lessons in this case. Use the archive also if you are quickly looking for a link, have lost one of the previous lessons, or have not received a lesson. HERE is the archive of past lessons.

Further NLP seminars
Of course, we also offer real seminars with personal encounters. This starts with our free NLP evening seminars in various cities in Germany and goes up to entire twenty-day trainings: Practitioner, Master, Trainer, and Coach.

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