Key part to Personal Development

[Sunnybayes]

Hey guys, I've written another mini article.

Creativity is the core to Personal Development

I'd appreciate some criticism.

Tell me which parts are still too hard to swallow.

Thanks.

[Brutha]

First a few non content issues:
Congratualtions on writing a bit more clear than last time.

What's the difference between planning and action? actually barely anything. we should actually define discretely what the difference between taking action and planning is.

Could you transport the same information in a single sentence to your readers? "Their isn't much difference between planing and taking action."

-because no one else knows - how come noone else know? because no one has cared to think about it yet...

That one got a laugh

And that the process of writing questions and answers is that you are doing multiple things simultaneously:

Don't start your sentence with "And that".

Your points are:
1) Being creative means you are able to put planing into action.
2) Doing brainstorming excercises makes you creative.

Their are a lot of people who think up one business idea after the next, but don't put any of it into action.
Would you consider those people as creative?
A article you might find interesting: http://www.strategy-business.com/pre...earticle/06207

[Sunnybayes]

WOW! Hey love that article! Several awesome points to that article.

Now I can use that as a source for a core source of my reasoning, and people can believe better because of that.

Their are a lot of people who think up one business idea after the next, but don't put any of it into action.
Would you consider those people as creative?

Yes, but they don't follow through with their creativity. Or they are convinced by external forces (old habits, patterns, TV, job) to keep their creativity else where.

Or they have not used their creativity to figure out how to make the transitions to fulfilling the business.

Or they have not created a strong enough life purpose, or they are scared of success.

Maybe they are just happy with creating businesses plans. Maybe they are scared of hiring people to help. Maybe they are scared of talking to a banking person. They just need to use their creativity to get over all those fears.

They need to them shift their creativity on implementing the business plan after they've come up with the plan. Perhaps a business plan implementation plan. I don't actually know what usually goes into a business plan.

In short, yes they are creative, they just need to shift their creativity elsewhere to make it happen.

[Sunnybayes]

I like this part:

Dr. Price and Dr. Schwartz are currently working to demonstrate that the Quantum Zeno Effect explains these findings. The mental expectation of pain relief causes the person to repeatedly focus his or her attention on the experience of pain relief, so that the brain’s pain-relief circuits are activated, causing a decrease in the sensation of pain. People experience what they expect to experience.

People experience what they expect to experience. There's a powerful statement.

The fact that our expectations, whether conscious or buried in our deeper brain centers, can play such a large role in perception has significant implications. Two individuals working on the same customer service telephone line could hold different mental maps of the same customers. The first, seeing customers only as troubled children, would hear only complaints that needed to be allayed; the second, seeing them as busy but intelligent professionals, would hear valuable suggestions for improving a product or service.

Well there's the law of attraction.

The findings suggest that at a moment of insight, a complex set of new connections is being created. These connections have the potential to enhance our mental resources and overcome the brain’s resistance to change. But to achieve this result, given the brain’s limited working memory, we need to make a deliberate effort to hardwire an insight by paying it repeated attention.

"The findings suggest that at a moment of insight, a complex set of new connections is being created. "
Therefore understand my framework... or someone's frame work will "enhance our mental resources and overcome the brain’s resistance to change", so they know why they should change and so that it's easier to change.

"But to achieve this result, given the brain’s limited working memory, we need to make a deliberate effort to hardwire an insight by paying it repeated attention." AND (hehe) that's why you should read this article and my framework and your own (i.e. journal) several times.

[Sunnybayes]

Attention Density Shapes Identity
For insights to be useful, they need to be generated from within, not given to individuals as conclusions. This is true for several reasons. First, people will experience the adrenaline-like rush of insight only if they go through the process of making connections themselves. The moment of insight is well known to be a positive and energizing experience. This rush of energy may be central to facilitating change: It helps fight against the internal (and external) forces trying to keep change from occurring, including the fear response of the amygdala.

Therefore you have to be creative yourself and find the answers internally instead of reading the things. That's why reading this post is going to be pointless... shame... unless you figure out someway to take action...

[Sunnybayes]

Damn this article is good...

. Human brains are so complex and individual that there is little point in trying to work out how another person ought to reorganize his or her thinking. It is far more effective and efficient to help others come to their own insights. Accomplishing this feat requires self-observation.

Accomplishing this feat requires self-observation.

"It is far more effective and efficient to help others come to their own insights."

Well, this is my framework... guess you guys better make your own... or give you insights on how to map it to your internal feelings... but that's probably a hard thing to do.

[Sunnybayes]

The term attention density is increasingly used to define the amount of attention paid to a particular mental experience over a specific time. The greater the concentration on a specific idea or mental experience, the higher the attention density. In quantum physics terms, attention density brings the QZE into play and causes new brain circuitry to be stabilized and thus developed. With enough attention density, individual thoughts and acts of the mind can become an intrinsic part of an individual’s identity: who one is, how one perceives the world, and how one’s brain works. The neuroscientist’s term for this is self-directed neuroplasticity.

hmm... ok too much quoting... you guys had better go and just read it yourselves...

[Sunnybayes]

Also, given the small capacity of working memory, many small bites of learning, digested over time, may be more efficient than large blocks of time spent in workshops

HEY! There's the reason to keep a journal.

[Sunnybayes]

Martin Seligman, founder of the positive psychology movement and former president of the American Psychological Association, recently studied 47 severely depressed individuals. The study involved two unusual components. First, participants focused their attention on things that were proven to increase happiness — specifically, an exercise called the three blessings, in which people wrote down three things that had gone well that day — instead of on the source or nature of their unhappiness, which is where many mental health interventions focus. Second, communities were allowed to form, which encouraged people to pay attention to the happiness-inducing exercises. Depression in 94 percent of the participants dropped significantly, from clinically severe to clinically mild-to-moderate symptoms. The impact was similar to the effects of medication and cognitive therapy combined. Perhaps any behavior change brought about by leaders, managers, therapists, trainers, or coaches is primarily a function of their ability to induce others to focus their attention on specific ideas, closely enough, often enough, and for a long enough time.

Wow! We don't need antidepressant drugs.

-the reason for Steve posting about gratitude.

-why those who put up progress threads are going to make progress.

[Sunnybayes]

In a world with so many distractions, and with new mental maps potentially being created every second in the brain, one of the biggest challenges is being able to focus enough attention on any one idea. Leaders can make a big difference by gently reminding others about their useful insights, and thus eliciting attention that otherwise would not be paid.

“The encouraging sounds of ‘yes, good, that’s it’ help to mark a synapse for preservation rather than pruning.”

Another reason to keep a journal and write down your thoughts to be creative. Basically thinking on paper.

Perhaps you are thinking, “This all sounds too easy. Is the answer to all the challenges of change just to focus people on solutions instead of problems, let them come to their own answers, and keep them focused on their insights?” Apparently, that’s what the brain wants. And some of the most successful management change practices have this type of principle ingrained in them.

Yup. The missing piece of personal development is to... make it personal!! wow. what a concept.

[Sunnybayes]

As Peter F. Drucker said, “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” In the knowledge economy, where people are being paid to think, and with constant change, there is more pressure than ever to improve how we learn. Perhaps these findings about the brain can start to pull back the curtain on a new world of productivity improvement: in our ability to bring about positive, lasting change in ourselves, in our families, in our workplaces, and in society itself.

hmm... maybe that should be the purpose of these forums. Teach people how to learn for themselves...

Be creative to figure out how to be creative.

[Brutha]

WOW! Hey love that article! Several awesome points to that article.

Damn this article is good...

I guess I made someone happy

[Mark Lapierre]

Originally Posted by Sunnybayes

I'd appreciate some criticism.

Tell me which parts are still too hard to swallow.

It still takes a lot of effort to find the message amongst all your words.

Curiosity is a requirement for creativity, which itself is a requirement for personal development? Is that what you're saying?