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2-PREPARATION
We shall distinguish long term preparation and short term.
21-Long term preparation
Just like for mental imagery and visioning we do not know the
real cause of creativity but there are some basic preparations.
We give you six advices:
-Health: A creative thought depends on a well nourished brain.
Since the beginning of history, some drugs are supposed to
enhance the brain power. In the old times, it was mainly tobacco.
Today, someone recommend to use serotonin and so on. Beware
about these drugs. They can produce secondary effects and
diseases (such as tobacco !).
-Attention: Concentration and attention play a great role in long
preparation: it means that you have to constantly think about
your vision. You must think at it when you wake up. You must
think at it in having lunch. You must think at it in playing tennis
or golf. You must think at it before sleeping. To think constantly
about the same thing is a good method for having innovative
ideas about it.
-Readings: In this course, we give you a method to improve your
creativity but it must apply on a content. Readings of basic
knowledge's provide with this content. Therefore, you will have
to read carefully the lessons about economy.
Read everything and as much as you can. Reading constantly
improves creativity because when you are reading a book, you
always form a mental image of what is happening. As we shall
see, mental imagery plays once again a great role in the creativity
process.
On the contrary, Television does not train creativity and
impoverish it because it shows the images and consequently
there is nothing left to the imagination.
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