[Neurons] Announcement of new book: Creative Solutions

Thu Nov 2 20:14:01 EDT 2017

From: L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Announcing the newest Book

CREATIVE SOLUTIONS

Creativity starts with thinking.  When you think, you create ideas.  That's
why the quality of your thinking determines the quality of creativity.  When
do you think?  When you have a goal to achieve and when that objective is
blocked.  We call that a problem- something thrown in your way.  This
landscape of creativity- outcomes, problems, solutions, and innovation-has
many variables -the creative space, the creative strategy, the attitude of
loving problems, your singularity, risk management, implementation, and
more.  These are the components of the creative process from dream to
creative solution to implementation.

What makes this practical is that each of these landscapes is managed by a
creative conversation-a collaborative conversation by which you can gain new
perspectives, mobilize needed resources, handle innovation risks, etc.

Creative solutions drive business, enhance groups and culture, and define
how we evolve.  Discover in Creative Solutions the rich complexity in the
creative experience and strategy. Discover its vital engagement and joyous
pleasure.  If you're ready to discover how to tap your own creative powers,
become a creative person, enjoy the flow and joy of creating, and how to
coach others through creative collaborative conversations-this book is
definitely for you.

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Content of the book: 

Foreword
4

Part I: Understanding Creativity

1:  What is Creativity?
8

2:  Coaching Creativity
19

3:  Living Creatively
27

Part II: Creative Vision

4: The Outcome Conversation
33

5: What Stops You?
41

6: The Creative You
49

7: Going Meta for Creativity
60

8: Creative Frustration
72

9: Creative Stages
78

10: Creativity's Thinking Space
91

11: Creativity as Experimenting
101

Part III: Creative Problems

12: Problems: The sine quo non 

      of Creativity
108

13: Learning to Love Problems
121

14. The Well-Formed Problem     

       Conversation
134

Transition:
145

     First Vision,

     Then Problem Statement 

     Then Solution Process

Part IV: Creative Solutions

15: The Strange World of Solutions
146

16: The Well-Formed Solution

      Conversation
154

17: Developing the Solution Question

167

Part V: Creative Innovation

18: Finding Your Creative Singularity

176

19: Personal Innovation: Translating

      from Mind into Neurology
182

20: Getting into the Creative Zone
197

      The Creativity State

21: Innovative Readiness
208

22: The Well-formed Innovation       

      Conversation
217

23: The Risky Conversation
227

24: The Performance Conversation
237

25: Measuring Your Innovation
242

Appendices: 

A: The Neuro-Semantic Precision        Funnel
255

B: Principles governing Problems, Solutions, an Creativity
256

C: Multiple Intelligences
261

Bibliography
262

Index
266

FOREWORD

"Every new idea starts out as blasphemy;

Every new idea begins as a minority of one."

Anthony de Mello, Awareness

O

riginally I aimed to focus this book on the inside-out nature of creativity.
Given that it is the person who creates, who comes up with new ideas and
translates these ideas into a practical and useful products, services, or
information.  Having written other books with that theme, namely, Inside-Out
Wealth and Inside-Out Persuasion, I thought Inside-Out Creativity would be a
good choice.  But I changed my mind.  Upon reading and reflecting on Mihalyi
Csikszentmihalyi's argument that creativity is not an individual
achievement, but a psycho- social-cultural one, the inside-out frame seemed
too limiting. Yes, one aspect of creativity is inside-out and yet that's not
the full story.  Creativity is also social in several ways as you will
discover.

I next decided to focus on authenticity and to title this work, Authentic
Creativity. That idea came as I was finishing the book on unleashing
authenticity, Get Real (2016).  After all, while some novel ideas are new,
they are also impractical and unrealistic.  Such "creativity," if we can
call it that, is actually pseudo-creativity so that in the end nothing is
actually created.  Then there's the person who fails to study a field or do
the required literature search-the due diligence in that domain, and then
sets out to reinvent what's already been invented-that's another form of
pseudo-creativity.

Then in reading and researching creativity, in training workshops on
Creativity and Innovation, I came across a comment that captured my
attention.  Michael Michalko mentioned it in Cracking Creativity (2001) and
he mentioned it almost as an aside.  He noted that Einstein, Pauli,
Heisenberg, and Bohr made incredible creative breakthroughs through simple,
open, and honest conversations.  They met and conversed with each other for
years.  Treating each other as colleagues, they exchanged ideas without
trying to change each other's mind. He then commented that this illustrates
"the staggering potential of collaborative thinking."1

Ah, here authentic and social creativity come together in conversations -as
collaborative creativity.  That got me thinking, where and in what context
do new creative ideas come from?  Do they not ultimately come from
conversations?  It could be a conversation with yourself as you puzzle over
a problem or a curiosity.  It could be a conversation with some aspect of
the world of nature or human nature.  Yet mostly they come from
conversations with colleagues, friends, and 

loved ones.  New ideas that have creative potential of workable solutions
arise from conversations-collaborative conversations.  They arise from
conversations that make us think.  It was physicist John Wheeler who
expressed this colloquially: 

"If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it.  Nobody, I
always say, can be anybody without somebody being around."2

Creativity as a Coaching Conversation

Now if new creative ideas arise mostly, if not exclusively, within and from
conversations, then we could coach creativity.  Now there's a creative idea!
Can creativity really be coached?  Could we enable, empower, and facilitate
those who make their living with new ideas-namely knowledge workers and
those who lead the minds and hearts of people -so that they become more
creative and innovative?

If so, is there such a thing as a creativity coach?  Could there be?  If
that is possible, what would coaching creativity entail?  And if a person
wanted to become a creativity coach, what would that person have to know,
learn, and experience to be an effective creativity coach?

.                   Could we facilitate one or more coaching conversations
with those who are not creative, who don't think of themselves as creative,
who feel low creativity, and yet who want to be creative?

.                   Can the creative process itself be coached?

.                   What kind of conversations would you facilitate if you
were to evoke creative ideas in someone?

.                   Can people learn how to have collaborative conversations
about ideas?  

The answer to all of these questions turns out to be Yes!  And to facilitate
that, you will find nearly two-dozen coaching conversations which you can
use to coach the many different aspects of creativity.

Coaching as Creativity Conversation

Coaching itself is a conversation-it is a very personal, focused, and
sometimes fierce conversation that gets to the heart of things-the person's
meanings and meaningfulness.  That conversation then enables the person to
translate his highest meanings into practical creations.  This actualizes
her meanings so they become her lifestyle.

As a conversation, coaching both inspires and challenges a person to step up
to become all that one can become.  Given that, a professional coach is
uniquely trained and capable of facilitating the unique kind of
conversations that tap into potentials and mobilize one's inner and outer
resources.  When this happens, the person changes.  She grows to become more
self-aware and self-determining.  He transforms to become more emotionally
intelligent and to step up to the choice point of assuming his full
responsibilities in life.

Let's now put these together-coaching and creativity.  Creativity itself is
essentially a collaborative solution-focused conversation because to "think"
is to create and coaching is designed to get you to think-to really think
about goals, problems, solutions, and implemented 

innovations.  In fact, these four experiences define the landscape of
creativity.  They give you  four fundamental conversations that support
creative products and services.

In this way, even those who do not think of themselves as creative can
become creative.  Non-creative people who are easily bored, passive, and
unable to focus their attention for very long can become creatively
fascinated and engaged.  People who think, feel, and live as if they are
victims-depressed, frustrated, and wanting to be entertained-can discover
their creative powers to live with passion.  Those who fear change, fear new
ideas, fear risk, etc. can move beyond their fears to the courage to create.
Those who are rigid, inflexible, and only want the status quo can become
creatively adaptive.

As a book in the Meta-Coaching series, this one highlights the use of
coaching to evoke creative solutions and creativity as a conversation.  Here
you will find a series of creative coaching conversations that you can use
to tap into and unleash creative potentials in yourself and others.  You
will discover the nature of these conversations, the questions that drive
them, and guidance in how to use them.

Expectations

What can you expect with this approach?  Expect to tap into your own
creativity.  Expect to discover that creativity is fun and exciting and that
it puts zest and vitality into life.  Expect that it will give you a highly
valuable resource for wealth creation, business, entrepreneurship, and
leadership.  As an employee, when you are creative you give your company a
great competitive advantage.  Expect that creativity and creative solutions
will enrich every aspect of your life as it gives you that ability to see
the world with fresh eyes and operate from a vision of possibilities.

Expect that with creativity you will become much more of an agent in your
own life as you work to create the desired outcomes that you want.
Creativity makes you more self-directing, response-able, empowered, at
cause.  Expect also that as your creativity grows, your future will become
increasingly more of an opportunity and not a threat.

Here's to the creative solutions that will renew and fulfill the joy and
vitality of your life!

End of Preface Notes: 

1. See Michalko, Michael. (2001).  Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of
Creative Genius, p. 355.

2. Quoted by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in Creativity (1996), p. 66.

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

               Neuro-Semantics Executive Director 

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