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4 Steps To Uncover Your Hidden Ideas
In spite of the often heard ‘Eureka’ experience or the image of a ‘light bulb’ going off in your head,
real concepts and ideas usually come to you in a series of steps, or stages. This time, I’ll introduce you
to a wonderful four-stage system that will greatly enhance your creativity.
Researchers and scientists have looked into the path the mind takes to originate a new idea fairly
extensively. One of the most widely accepted studies is from the 19th century German physiologist and
physicist Hermann von Helmholtz in which a four-stage process was discovered:
Step 1 PREPARATION
In the preparation stage, your mind collects information and data that serves as background for a
creative issue you are working on.
Your entire education and general background of life experience contribute, to some extent, to your
preparation for creativity. The broader and more diverse your experiences have been, the more
prepared you are to meet challenges. But in the Helmholtz model, preparation refers to a task-oriented
stage in which you do specific research on your project.
Preparation occurs with reading, interviewing people, traveling or other activities (like going online) to
gather raw facts and concepts or opinions.
For instance, if you’re an actor visiting your play's locales, viewing other films by the director in your
current project or reading the history of the character through biography, all this would constitute the
‘preparation’ period, or step 1 in the creative process.
I’m talking about thorough, complete - even exhaustive research - too. It need not, and perhaps can’t,
be done in a single swift movement or flurry of research much ability as God has given you to work
with.
The length of time that it takes to explore the issue you’re faced with will vary.
Sometimes, you will be able to accomplish this step relatively quickly; in the sense that ‘time’ is not
such a factor because the problem that is being explored is of a unique nature. Other times, however, a
greater, more exacting demand is placed on you. In this case, many days, weeks or even months may
be required to fully search out all the parameters that are involved in the quest.
Step 2 INCUBATION
The incubation stage is commonly known as the ‘time-out’ phase, the period when you store the
information you have gathered and cease to focus on it. In other words, you let it ‘sit’ and stop
thinking about it. Though you may feel you’re ‘not working’, or are ‘slacking off’ - this stage is critical.
Remember the story of Archimedes, from which the ‘Eureka’ experience comes?
He didn’t discover the answer to his search until he had completely let it go and gone to take a bath!
Although it feels like you’re wasting time during the apparent downtime, your unconscious mind takes
over the information that you gathered in step 1, caring for it and considering it (just as unseen growth
occurs in the incubation of an egg).
The key element here is the unknowable ability of your unconscious mind to start the process of
‘connecting ideas’. This linking many times produces something new and different.
Realize your mind is very active and is:
Juxtaposing: taking one idea and pitting it against another.
Blending: taking characteristics or aspects from two ideas and merging them
Funneling: joining many ideas to form a synthesis or combination of the best elements
Circling: starting out with a fuzzy picture and narrowing in on the best choices and options
Imagining: using imagination and fantasy to produce a new idea from an old one
Many creative people realize the essential value of this stage and look for signs of fatigue, boredom or
stress to tell them that it's time to 'take a break’ and let this incubation occur.
It should be noted that the wonderful ‘eureka’ experience might not always appear just because you
have allowed Step 2 (incubation) to occur. You may still need to dig more through the first step until
enough ‘food’ or ‘energy’ is developed by the conscious mind and its searching for an answer to be
developed. Again, upon reaching a stage of fatigue, boredom or stress you ‘let go’! This seesaw back
and forth from step 1 to step 2 can occur once or several times. The law is not immutable. However, it
is sure that on entering Step 2, at some level of the search, real - even dramatic - results will occur.
Just remember that this stage is not up for your mental control. You must truly ‘let go’, just as we
allow the soup to boil in order for all the ingredients to meld into full flavor. So we must let our
projects ‘boil’ and not attend to them ourselves. They will gestate on their own - with time.
Step 3 ILLUMINATION
This is the actual Eureka experience itself, when you go “aha! I’ve got it.” The moment of inspiration
when, seemingly out of nowhere, a new idea surfaces and your creative challenge has been answered.
The surge of energy you get when this happens is usually quite remarkable. It often hits you like a
brick!
Oddly enough, illumination often occurs when you are doing something quite unrelated to your creative
work, such as showering, driving or even staring off into space. Researchers believe that illumination
occurs when ideas in the unconscious realm appear to the conscious mind. This is most readily reached
when you are relaxed and not under stress.
History records many ‘illumination’ experiences when people are relaxed and otherwise occupied with
simple things that are totally unrelated to their effort.
Richard Wagner was in the midst of a quiet period of reflection when the theme for his opera, Das
Rheingold, came to him in a dream.
Einstein said that his Theory of Relativity came to him while he was conducting another ‘mind
experiment’ (could it have been a Creative Pop?). And it came to him like a daydream.
Descartes was playfully watching a fly on the wall when he invented analytical geometry.
Relaxation and distraction are vital to encourage both incubation and illumination to occur.
Step 4 VERIFICATION
Here is where you actually implement your idea. You give form to it so as to ‘check out’ its veracity
and usefulness. Here is where the writer actually writes, the businessperson tests the product, the
painter grabs his/her brushes and the musician composes the lyrics and sets the score.
Two things may happen at this stage;
New ideas you get in illumination are so perfect that you implement them exactly as you conceived
them. It’s almost like channeling, you frantically write, draft, sing or do whatever your mind tells you.
Things seem to FLOW seamlessly from thought to action.
Usually though, ideas are not presented in perfect form like this, so you work to refine them and polish
what your unconscious has delivered. You take the seed and cultivate the ground so that a healthy
plant is grown over time.
Here, the playwright has a plot delivered via illumination but must develop the dialogue. A painter has
the picture in mind from illumination but must use her craft to develop the hues, shadow and substance
of the piece.
This last step may take moments, months or even years to complete. Mozart and Bach wrote entire
symphonies in one sitting after hearing the themes that ‘popped’ into their heads. Yet, Michelangelo
and Leonardo da Vinci had to work years to bring their creative visions to life.
In Summary:
You have probably used this four-stage creative process many times without being aware of it. Most
of us have had experiences in which ideas seem to appear out of ‘nowhere’ when our minds are
occupied somewhere else. These help us in business and in our art.
But it is important to know that you can use this model intentionally to increase creativity. Whenever
you want to generate new ideas, simply be aware of the steps mentioned in this article and allow them
to automatically help you generate ideas.
This is the natural path that your mind takes to creativity. Trust that illumination will eventually occur.
You are, after all, a CREATOR. You were designed and built to solve problems and create new
solutions. This is the glory of you!
The above is an extract from the book "Anyone Can Consult".
To learn more about consulting career, refer to this book:
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This book could have been called "The New Consultants Toolkit" instead of "Anyone Can Consult".
It has that many useful tools for the budding entrepreneur that wishes to get started in this exciting and
lucrative career. Inside these pages you’ll have all the ground floor material you’ll need to begin your
consulting business.
But it’s not called "The New Consultants Toolkit" because I realized the really hard part would be to
convince readers, hardworking knowledgeable folks just like you, that they can consult, using what
they already know to help others and make a substantial income for themselves.
That’s the true challenge.
But it’s not insurmountable, especially if you broaden the scope of defining a consultant as we will in
this book. I make no assumptions in "Anyone Can Consult", other than the assumption that you
know next to nothing about consulting. I assume you’re a total beginner and if you’re not, there is still
enough true ‘meat’ in these pages to satisfy the hungriest independent professional.
After all, what is consulting, anyway?
Consulting is an enterprise of ideas, thoughts, plans and innovations. It’s a field that utilizes your full
array of experience and knowledge. It’s like being the Kings Advisor, One Of the Presidents Men (or
Women) — a consultant is paid for his/her advice.
Advice that he/she sells.
This expertise is based on years of experience in a given area which has been developed, researched
and applied countless times with success. Once you consider your individual background and decide
on your area of specialty and convince yourself that you are truly ready to consult, the rest is a
cakewalk.
You CAN consult.
The author clears away the dust and confusion and gives you a clearer, more succinct view of yourself
in this magnificent arena. Before you’re done reading this book you’ll understand the ways to go about
getting clients, displaying your ‘wares’, how to inject original ideas into projects and present them for
profit.
He will give you a set of integral tools that get you started in this amazing consulting profession.
First, we’ll convince you that you CAN consult, no matter what field of endeavor you’re currently
proficient in. Once you know— in a "rock solid" way— that you already have the ability to do this
thing called ‘consult’, then you will be presented your ‘tools of the trade’.
You’ll get the extensive 5 part research course. You’ll use this tool constantly as a working consultant.
Let’s face it, none of us have all the answers instantly at our fingertips, no matter how much of a
"master" we are in our area of expertise.
Sometimes we have to do extra research to stay up-to-date and increase the value of our advice to
clients.
This course comes with an index that is fully ‘clickable’ and will be a godsend the first time you turn to
it for research. Every conceivable field has been included. You’ll love this tool!
A little apprehensive (even nervous) about stepping out on your own? Of course, you are. That’s
completely natural. Although you may consult parttime in the beginning, and still have the comfort and
support of a full-time job, eventually,— and once you get a ‘taste’ of this freedom we consultants
experience every day we wake up,— you’ll want to join our ranks. That requires courage and desire.
It requires assertiveness, too.
"The Truth About Assertiveness" has been included in this book as another invaluable tool for the
budding consultant. You’ll feel much more independent and powerful once you take its advice to heart.
But we’re not done yet.
Since consulting is truly an arena of ‘ideas’, ‘concepts’, ‘advice’ and ‘original thinking’ you must be
able to foster creativity on a daily basis. That’s what divides the ‘everyday’,— some would say
expendable— consultant, from the true innovator that is never at a loss for clients.
You will be armed to the teeth in this vital area of creativity. When you apply "The Creative Process"
- A 4 Step System To Uncover Your Hidden Ideas in this book, you’ll be a one-person army of
constantly fresh, dynamic solutions that your clients will fall all over themselves to acquire from you.
One thing you'll surely experience, especially if you start out part-time, is the increasing demand on
your time. Being organized is not a luxury for a busy consultant. It's the very lifeblood of proficient
service. If you're working with 2-10 clients at once you had better be organized. Otherwise you'll be
easily swamped , totally overwhelmed by the demands on you. The tool I've included here to help you
in this vital area is titled: "Getting Organized Once & For All!"
Finally, you will be introduced to the original, one-of-a-kind "CREATORS Consulting Sessions" in
case you want to take this whole enterprise into the stratosphere and become a ‘legend’ in your field.
You will be thrilled!
It is known that consulting is a growing field with over 40 Billion Dollars already being scooped up in
the U.S. alone by enterprising, independent individuals that are much like you. Once you expand your
image of yourself, free yourself to delve more deeply into an area you’ve already spent much time and
effort in, and then give yourself permission to consult and help others with your own, unique
knowledge, — you’ll never be the same again!
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You need to find your nich and learn to sell your expertise. This
ebook can help you understand good, old-fashioned sales
techniques that have worked since the days of King Solomon.
And, one never needs to sacrifice principles and integrity to make
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You need to learn how to promote your consulting business
effectively and at a very low cost. You will learn how to promote
your consulting business on the internet, powerfully and with good
results. You will learn the importance of, and the bolts and nuts of
doing, article writing and publishing, blogs, forums,
autoresponders, e-zines etc to prmote your business with amazing
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You need to learn how to speak in public. This book helps you to
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You need to be able to tell people about what your consulting
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sound like something we've learned parrot-fashion from a glossy
brochure.
A consultant is not only one that is highly motivated to achieve
success, he has to get others motivated as well. You can motivate
yourself and others even in very difficult situations - that is when
you can stand out. You will learn that while fear and reward may
motivate, their effects are only temporary. You need to build up
your self-motivation, so that you remain highly motivated no matter
what the external environment may be. The self-motivation that
you have developed will help you in whatever you do, not just in
your consulting business.
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