[Neurons] 2012 Meta-Reflections #8

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2012 Meta Reflections #8

Feb. 17, 2012-02-17

 

Reprinted from March, 2008

Now for the first time, 

The Creativity & Innovations Training

Comes to the USA in March 16-18

See details at the end.

 

 

THE ULTIMATE CREATIVITY

 

 

 

There's creativity and then there is self-actualization creativity.  The
first is what we all inherit as human beings-our ability to create things.
In this, everybody is creative.  And the reason for this is our lack of
instincts.  We are born with a knowledge gap about how to be human-we do not
naturally, intuitively, instinctively know that.  That is the gap within us
that we have to fill- and fill it we do.  And this explains the tremendous
range of how to be human and how to create human cultures that there are.

 

Without instinctive knowledge hard-wired into our DNA, the knowledge gap of
the content of how to be the species that we are is wide-open for us to
invent all kinds of ways.  And invent them we do.  This is the foundation of
creativity.  It begins as we create our thoughts, our ideas, our hopes,
dreams, fears, dreads, terrors, etc.  Thinking itself is an act of
creativity.  We cannot not escape from the demand of creativity.  Even when
we try to give up all individuality, all uniqueness, all personality,
personal responsibility and try to conform perfectly to what other's want,
say, require, demand, etc. -even that is an act of creativity!

 

As we cannot escape being creative, we cannot turn off the creativity.  In
fact, even when we close our eyes and rest in the comfort of sleep-we are
creative!  Our nature as creative beings is seen in our sleep-in the wild
and crazy ways that we dream.  Released from the constraints of daytime
reality, we are free to wildly create in our night-time reality.  This
reveals our creative nature.  It's within us.  Creativity is what we are in
the deepest part of our nature.

 

In the field of Creativity, the problem to solve is not how to become
creative, how to think creatively, how to invent new ideas about things- the
problem to explain is actually the opposite.

"How are some people so uncreative?  What kills their creativity?  What are
the leashes that imprison some people to fail to tap into their God-given,
innate creativity?  Why and how do some people escape creativity into bland
and stale conformity?  What is so fearful for them to be what they
are-creative human beings?"

 

This is the problem.  In the Training Manual, Creativity and Innovation, the
Executive summary begins with the following words:

The ultimate creativity is the self-actualization process-self-actualizing
as a human being.  This refers to how we create our self and our sense of
reality.  Regarding this, Maslow wrote the following as his opening
statement in Toward a Psychology of Being (Chapter 4, The Creative Attitude,
1963).

"My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the
healthy, self-actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and
closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing." (1971, p.
55) 

 

So self-actualization creativity is using your innate creativity to create
your highest visions and values and then to actualize those in real life as
your contribution.  Self-actualization creativity begins with a specific
focus for creativity as it focuses first on creating yourself.
Traditionally, we refer to this as maturing, growing up, developing,
becoming an authentic and responsible human being.  The Self-Actualization
Psychology of Neuro-Semantics frames all of that as using and being the
creativity built within us.  We frame that as self-actualization psychology.

 

Commenting on all of this, Colin Wilson, one of the biographers of Maslow
wrote the following in New Pathways in Psychology:

"Maslow's observation [is] that all self-actualizers are creative-sometimes
artistically or scientifically, sometimes in more down-to-earth ways; but
always creative."  (p. 169)

 

To self-actualize is to discover, enjoy, and fully experience your own
unique creativity.  So, using that as a gauge, how much of a
self-actualizing life are you now living?  How much more of a
self-actualizing life is possible for you?  How much have you unleashed to
this date?  What do you need to be unleashed from so that you can fully
experience your innate creativity?  What would you like to invent and
innovate into the world?

           How creative are you as a parent?

           How creative are you in exercising and staying fit and healthy?

           How creative are you in your relationships?

           How creative are you in enjoying the small pleasures of life?

           How creative are you in cooking a meal?  In designing your
career?

           How create are you in your wealth creation and financial
independence? 

 

The final stage of creativity is innovation.  Innovation enables you to take
your creativity to market.  Whether it is creative ideas, products,
information, or services, you are creative enough to successfully translate
your great ideas into something that adds value and creates wealth for
ourselves and others.

 

I write all of this reflecting on how creative a field NLP ought to be and
how yet uncreative and non-creative it has been (and actually continues to
be today).  Yet NLP ought to be the most creative of fields!  As a
meta-discipline about the structure of subjectivity, running our own brains,
managing our own states -you would think that NLP people would be among the
most creative.  Well, then again, maybe they are.  Perhaps they do have lots
of creative ideas.  Yet even if that's the case, what they are not-they are
not creative innovators.  They are not translating those creative ideas into
actual processes and taking them to market.  So NLP continues to be a small
niche that most people on the planet don't know about and most of the wonder
and magic of NLP is not available to most people.

 

Want more?   Check out the Module of the Neuro-Semantic Self-Actualization
Workshop- Creativity and Innovation: Unleashing Your Creative Potentials.
The design of this is, obviously, to facilitate more creativity among us and
more ability to innovate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

            Date:               March 16, 17, 18, 2012

            Place:              Washington DC

            Venue:             Hilton Garden Inn Tyson's Corner, 8301 Boone
Blvd., Vienna, VA 22182

            Theme:            Creativity & Innovation: Unleashing Your
Creative Potentials

            Contact:           Mark Ashton:   <mailto:ma.ashton1 at yahoo.com>
ma.ashton1 at yahoo.com 

                                    Richard Liotta:
<mailto:rfliotta at gmail.com> rfliotta at gmail.com 

                                    

 

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