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Concluding Comments

Creative visualisation is a useful and powerful tool to access solutions that may
already exist in the deeper reaches of your mind, imagination and memory. The
suggestions or answers to many of our problems and challenges can be found in our
prior experiences. The complexity and fast pace of life today often makes these
solutions harder to locate, call up and access.

It would be misleading to suggest that Creative Visualisation is a form of magic that
delivers what was previously thought impossible. It is however an extremely powerful
and successful way of using our brain and more importantly, what is stored in the
hidden depths of our minds, more effectively and productively.

There’s a lot more to creativity than thinking. It’s possible to sit around having lots of
creative thoughts, but without actually making anything of them. But if you start
making something, creative ideas seem to emerge naturally out of the process. So
given the choice, creative doing beats creative thinking.

A lot of ‘creative thinking techniques’ leave many of us cold. Brainstorming, lateral
thinking and thinking outside the box have always felt a bit corporate and contrived.
Artists and creatives and plenty of other creative professionals don’t use them.
Creative thinking cannot be reduced to a set of techniques, the process isn’t as
conscious and deliberate as these approaches imply.

A common reaction when the subject of creativity is mentioned goes along the lines
of “I’m just not the creative sort.” In fact, we all have the creative gene within us, it is
not and never has been the exclusive domain of the genius.

Creative Thought Is Not An Exact Science

Research into the subject provides plenty
of support for the view that creative
thinking doesn’t require perfection to yield
improved results.

By focusing almost exclusively on
academia, traditional schooling has
educated people out of their creative
capacities.

Picasso once said this, he said that all
children are born artists. The problem is
to remain an artist as we grow up. I
believe this passionately, that we don't
grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or
rather, we get educated out of it.

The surprising habits of original thinkers
Leonardo da Vinci toiled on and off for 16 years on the Mona Lisa. He felt like a
failure. He wrote as much in his journal. But some of the diversions he took in optics Page25
transformed the way that he modelled light and made him into a much better painter.

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