How to Coach Yourself and Others Better Coaching Through Visualisation | Page 89

Creativity is not a matter of innate potential. As many things in life,
creativity is the result of hard work and most of all serious training.
The creative process follows four different steps:
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Preparation: To train your mind.
Incubation: To set back from the problem.
Illumination: The idea arises in the mind like a sudden flash.
Validation: You have to check the validity of the idea.

We can sum up this process with the following drawing :

There are some other process but we shall adopt this one. The next
reading will give you a history of the various views of the creative
process, starting with the ancient greeks!
We shall now examine for each steps, what are the best appropriate
techniques

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