Good ideas don’t just happen. They depend on people who are open to making them happen, people who are eager to explore new paths and have a burning desire to learn new things. Jordan Ayan, an expert on creativity, says in his book "Ignite Your Creative Spark" that new ideas have roots in your creative soul, and a four-step process will help you bring them to life.
The four steps are:
- Preparation- You gather information and resources to fully understand a problem or opportunity.
- Incubation- You take no conscious action toward solving your problem; instead you just let your subconscious mind play with the information.
- Illumination- You experience the "Aha" moment, probably when you are least expecting it.
- Implementation- You do…or you don’t. This is where most people fall off the creative train. I heard John Maxwell once say, "Lots of folks have great ideas in the shower, but they seem to lose them when they dry off." Don’t be one of those people. Use persistence and passion to bring your ideas to life.
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It takes courage to go beyond a certain level. Most people look for security above all. They fear to walk an unknown path. A creative mind shuts out fear and reaches out beyond the known, looking for something new and different. The freedom and curiosity is reached fairly early in life, that gives an individual the desire to go beyond the norm.
A profound truth – expressedin a few words.
Good ideas do depend on people who want to make an effort come up with them. But even when people aren’t trying to come up with creative things, the good ideas just come right out of them. Creativeness takes courage to put forth some of an effort.
I think the four step process is how you can get you creative juices flowing. they will help you think of new and better ideas to succeed in life.
This process is so true. All four steps fall into play with eachother. The first one leads you to the second one, the second one leads you to third one, and the third one leads you to the fourth one. And the fourth one is where most people hop of the idea express.
Courage is within a person who is willing to do what it takes. It takes a strong, fearful person to go after what they are passionate about. Good ideas give people the imagination to do things of the unexpected.
Although I believe good ideas start with preparation, illumination, and implementation, I believe that not everybody follows Step 2 everytime. I think that people use both their conscious and subconscious thoughts to make a decision or to solve a problem. If you are open and willing to explore new paths, good ideas are bound to happen.
I agree, I believe that in most cases you cant force good ideas, you have to allow them to come to you. Persistence and passion is the creative drive that allows people to become successful. Creativeness takes confindence,you got to have self-confidence in order to believe in your own ideas.
These four steps are important to people who want to learn new things. You should follow them if you want to go new paths. These four steps are the steps the go through when they see something there are not expecting, and when they plan to do something new
I think that this website s mostly a lecture about old relations. The quotes are mostly about peoploe who were famous celeberties. All ofd that is great, but you need to add more.
In this blog it shows the four steps to having a creative soul. One of the Four steps i have experienced alot in my time latly, like when ever i forget what i was about to do, about to say. then all of a sudden i get that Oh! i remember what i was about to say, because until i remember what i was about to say i dont forget about it i just keep trying to remember what i was about to say or do.
I think comment 523418 is right. You shouldn’t force new ideas you should let them come to you. Take new paths, and do new adventures cause the more you do the more you know.
I agree with comment 523418. You must first have confidence in yourself to make your ideas known. Good ideas come from within. Lastly, passion and drive allows you to be successful, and if you have the motivation to do so, you can easily succeed if you set your mind to it.
i completely agree with 700208, it is totally about having a creative soul. i dont agree that it is a website mostly about old relations i think this website could be great at giving other people advise, not just quotes of people who made it big.
585151,
I agree with you completely. If you want to pursue a dream, you should follow these steps because later on they will be helpful in life. These four steps should be followed by everyone.
Nice quote!