We should be striving to create an environment that is egalitarian enough so every individual has, at least, the opportunity to actualize their potential.
Present consciousness: As human beings consciousness is at the heart of who we are. Consciousness is awareness of the subject we are talking about, our knowledge and strength in the field. The development of implicit knowledge depends upon practice. The more conscious we grow, the more aligned we become with our intuition. To be conscious is to be aware and engaged with both the inner world of thought, feeling, choice, and the exterior world of experience and relationship.
The nature of consciousness is important in creativity. To be creative, we need to be conscious, curious about things that surround us. If creativity is the process of assembling previously disparate or unconnected ideas into a new whole, then it can only be a conscious act to do so. When in the grip of the creative urge and to be truly creative requires the suppression of many of the parts of our consciousness which we rely on most heavily in everyday life, and let our mind go free, become a bit wild. There is no thought of self, no ego, it is just about keeping creative ideas flowing.
Active subconsciousness: The sentiment that the subconscious mind has a role to play in all that we do, including how we generate fresh ideas. The subconscious mind can be thought of like the secret garden in which the seeds germinate and grow and the creative energy is released. It is also the storehouse of all talents developed and lessons learned. The subconscious capacity can sometimes produce creative ideas for disparate tasks. - developing new knowledge through the synthesis of ideas and concepts drawn from differing experiences. The things we know compared to the things we don’t know is just a tip of the iceberg. The crux of using our subconscious mind is to appreciate how different it is from our conscious mind. Perhaps creativity clicks at the intersection of the subconscious and conscious thinking.
Interaction of consciousness & unconsciousness: Our minds have access to both conscious thoughts and at times unconscious thought. It is a conscious mind we call with some unconscious activities of allowing creativity to flow. As many creatives or inventors may tell you, ideas tend to come when we stop thinking about the problem, and they would also say that it involves allowing us to be part of a process of trial and error. The creative people should have a high level of intelligence so that this longing can be converted to thought which has the capacity to explore unusual pathways. The person should have the capacity to enter into moments of reverie during which his/her frustrated thoughts, unanswered problems etc, reorder them and receive insight.
To be creative, to re-frame, first, you need to embrace the unknown - think outside the box; second, you need to challenge the known - probe the paradoxes. Intuitive thinking is subconscious, fast, and effective. Using that form we perform tasks without being aware of what has been done. The complex they may be, we have learned them in sufficient detail and with sufficient repetition that we do not need much cognitive effort to perform them. That process may start with a 'what if' or 'if only' moment or a direct challenge to find a solution. Inspiration, on the other hand, perhaps arrives from the unlikeliest of sources or disconnected thoughts and almost invariably when the conscious effort to be creative has been suspended.
Latent subconsciousness: Our real thinking happens subconsciously so we are not aware of it happening. However, we become aware of its consequences for they appear as conscious thinking. So the subconscious mind can speak or do multitasking. Our conscious and subconscious thinking work together. That is nature. Subconscious thinking is more efficient, but conscious thinking is more disciplined. Our subconscious capacity to generate disparate creative associations is not exclusively associated with the conscious task at hand. Perhaps creativity clicks at the intersection of the subconscious and conscious thinking. Creativity involves birthing something into existence which was not there before. This involves consciousness of a high order. It is clear that creativity, in general, can be enhanced by performing a task, with the subject of the creative effort having nothing to do with the task.
Many leaders operate well beyond their conscious mind. They have learned to trust their intuition, gut-feelings and operate well beyond their rational minds. They know it’s important to create positive mental pictures of what they want to achieve before they start. The sentiment that our subconscious has a role to play in all that we do, including how we lead, however, it's important not to overthink these things as we can often mistake subconscious acts, gut instinct or intuition for what actually make decisions based on a whole lots of things; we've learned over many years on a conscious level that have changed the way and rate we respond to situations on a more subconscious level.
Unknown consciousness or superconsciousness: Sometimes, there’s a completely new idea or concept that suddenly jumps out from nowhere. It simply happens. Though education may unlock part of intellectual potential, it might shut off certain raw intelligence or 'sub-conscious' understanding. From an evolutionary perspective, this is what we humans have always done and will continue doing – exploring our minds and bodies for the latent powers inherent in our genes. There exists a wealth of empirical and anecdotal evidence to support the understanding that one may be consciously engaged in one task, only to have the subconscious offer up into conscious thought, proposals and solutions to unrelated tasks. It is essentially the unknown, mystical, so far un-understood part of ourselves (our own mind), and we should persistently make efforts to bring as much as possible of that mystical into the realms of knowledge and science (human psychology, emotions, how our mind works, etc.) and philosophy, in order to harness that "Unknown consciousness," or perhaps superconsciousness, towards transforming ourselves, our organizations, and our world - it is what we know through our connections to the universe, carried largely through unconscious instincts, motives, and intuition.
Without consciousness, there is no creativity. There is no template that you can apply and suddenly you will become creative; it needs to have self-consciousness and it takes practice, practice, and practice more. To the extent that spirituality encourages you to think beyond visible limits, it cannot help but aid in the creative birthing process. There are three centers of intelligence, head, heart, and gut: all aligned as a system that brings clarity, openness, wisdom and an ability to speak from the heart without judgment to receive information and build intelligence. As a society, we need to respect and encourage change, difference, and uniqueness. It is only then we will see 'Human potential' really show itself. For humanity as a whole, there is enough transcendental wisdom to form the level of conscious intelligence we are seeking. The brainstorming of human potential can be understood as a process of continuous discovery of state of consciousness.
We should be striving to create an environment that is egalitarian enough so every individual has, at least, the opportunity to actualize their potential. This is what we humans have always done and will continue doing – exploring our minds and bodies for the latent powers inherent in our genes. Based on the talents and skills one has been given, is the person able to live an authentic life and make the biggest contribution to society according to their specific gifts and passion.
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