How to Coach Yourself and Others Better Coaching Through Visualisation | Page 96

As we have explained in the history module (See global leader on this site and click on history module), creativity is a solitary work. New ideas are often difficult to communicate and other people generally react by discouraging it: "it would not work, it's a waste of time" and so on. When a group of people is involved, the final product is mostly a consensus that uses old and proven ideas. A consensus is quite the exact contrary of a creative idea. Most discoveries are the work of one person. Of course large project require teams. In fact these projects are broken down into many small tasks and the best way to get creativity is to entrust only one person for each task. Down to earth advice: Thanks to Freud, Jung and so on, many psy underline the subconscious. We recognize this role and we have emphasized its power in the visioning process ( See above) but it's not a reason to expand infinitely its virtues. I think that a clear reason plays a major role in the creative process. 2 Mind mapping Mind mapping has been invented by Tony Busan. In some way, it's like a brainstorming but with only one person: Yourself. You take a paper and you write the subject of your research in the centre. Then, you start to think in at random in an inhibited style and you write all the ideas that come around the main subject. Then, for each specific idea you do the sam e and you write around all the ideas connected with. You rely all the ideas with arrows of different colours and you get the following result: 96