Incubation Stage is about achieving a deep renewalThe reason this stage is so powerful and successful is the fact that there is no self-censoring judgments in the unconscious; the unconscious mind knows a sense of correctness, a hunchWhat allow us to write our own programs and make decisions from intrinsic motivations and action is a self-reflective consciousnessWhy being child-like and why reprogramming? The conflict between social convention and repressed spontaneity of a child is sometimes so violent that it might manifest itself in crime, insanity, and neurosis, which are the prices we pay for the otherwise undoubted benefits of orderThe creative individual is a person who regularly solves problems, fashions products, or defines questions in a domain in a way that is initially considered novel but that ultimately becomes accepted in a particular cultural setting. (HG)A young monk asked the Master: "How can I ever get emancipated?" The Master replied: "Who has ever put you in bondage?" Advaita teachings One old Hasidic rabbi was asked by his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended and the day had begun, for that is the time for certain holy prayers. "Is it," proposed one student, "when you can see an animal in the distance and tell whether it is a sheep or a dog?" "No," answered the rabbi. "Is it when you can clearly see the lines on your own palm?" "No," answered the rabbi each time. "Then what is it?" the pupils demanded.Rabbi: "It is when you can look on the face of any man or woman and see that they are your sister or brother. Until then it is still night."Incubation stage is a way of liberation from past repressions; it's not about making yet it's about growingSecond Chapter; Incubation Stage |
The function of incubation stage is to undo the damage of past programming and not only to restore but also to develop the original spontaneity of a child; this spontaneity is not, however, by any means a blind disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. Incubation stage changes skepticism to enthusiasm; takes you on an odyssey, a voyage of exploration, motivation, and change.
In our first chapter we discussed theories and sciences. Here is the time to implement these sciences into a system that can actually work.
In the creativity process, incubation stage plays an important role. To create motivation inside consciousness, we will use the same method with a much different goal and procedure. How long does it take? It might take one day or one year. There is no limit to incubation stage. Below, however, we will discuss what you should look for to know if your incubation stage has worked for you. Basically, inside the incubation stage, you will follow a transformation path from apathy and boredom to motivation and then to passion, to creativity, to innovation, and finally to entrepreneurship. Passion is, in reality, your motivation on the boiling waters. In each trip, we will show you the tools you need to accomplish this transformation.
Apathy----->Motivation----->Passion----->Creativity----->Innovation----->Entrepreneurship
We call the path above a physical path. What does actually happen inside the mind? The path below is a mind map and actually happens inside your mind.
Purification -----> Concentration ------> Imagination (Visualization) -------> Goal Oriented + Hard Work + Creativity -------> Unification
The most noble of pleasures results from exercising skills in novel ways and in the bliss of freedom. Incubation stage is about achieving such pleasures where participants feel a sense of discovery, spontaneity, creativity, challenge, exploration, problem solving, concentration and unification. Using incubation stage you will learn to focus your concentration, achieve skills in observation and attention to be more creative and innovative. The ultimate goal is to experience joy and rapture of creativity; a unification concept.
The first stage in motivation process is incubation where you venture into new waters and dispel the old myths with a new vessel, compass and maps and hopefully you will return transformed and motivated. You are not the reasons for your amotivation, lack of purpose and apathy. We believe the main causes of your amotivation is the abusive environment of our own modern society where people have stopped living harmoniously with each other and the environment they live in.
We now have a society with crazy social obligations, and not just Western or developed society, that not intentionally advertises ignorance, isolation, violence, materialism, abuse and powerlessness when it should foster wisdom, happiness, true spirituality, safety, and autonomy. The market for antidepressants has never been better. Apathy, lack of optimism, hopelessness, and depression have become synonymous with new life adjustments. To paraphrase Anne Wilson Schaef in When Society Becomes and Addict, "rather than looking for ways to change, to save ourselves, we are becoming more conservative, more complacent, more defensive of the status quo. Those few individuals who notice and draw attention to these growing problems are met with massive denial. When they run for public office, they are not elected. When they confront us with what they know, they are ignored, dismissed, or discredited.... the fact that the system in which we live is an addictive system. It has all the characteristics and exhibits all the processes of the individual alcoholic or addict.....that the society has a disease. It is not itself the disease. If it admits having the disease, it has the option of recovery." I just like to add one thought to what she claims on ignoring those who try to wake us up. How many have heard of Donald Trump and how many know the name Langer or Csikszentmihalyi?
Through media, advertising, newspapers, tv, our society fosters a false idea of motivation, purpose, competency and self-esteem. It fosters a social status that mainly depends on possessions, particularly money. The false idea that you are what you own is the hallmark of our consumerist society. Unfortunately this false idea is also the whole edifice of our economic system. Now you can see why you are fighting a seemingly behemoth where there are a lot of vested interests in trying to foster this lie within you. You must note that the same is also true for power over others. People behave or act like no amount of power is enough.
As we discussed in the first chapter of this book, most sciences, if not all, deal with only one piece of the problem; one with apathy, one with motivation, one with creativity and one with innovation. No one as yet has put all the pieces together and treated the problem as a whole. In fact, I suspect that no one has yet perceived the problem as a whole—or, at least, seen it for what it is. This is a process. The purpose of this chapter is to put it all together and to analyze this process.
Incubation stage is a new, bold, and encompassing theory where you focus your way out of amotivation and you will triumph over your helplessness, apathy, and lack of interest. Incubation stage is a healing spiritual environment that stimulate your full human potential for motivation, empowerment, optimism, physical and emotional health, and real happiness. With the results of your incubation stage you will hopefully achieve success, expand your personal empowerment and continue to create a solid basis for happiness and healthy spirituality.
In the incubation stage you will find and let your child-like imagination to roam free trying to find joy in immersing itself in the process, observing and searching out new information. Observing like a child and asking the right question as childish as possible is crucial for incubation process. The idea and the outcome is to have the capacity to feel that you are childishly inspired. Inside incubation stage, you will remember the child in you who likes to challenge himself/herself to become competent, apparently just for the enjoyment of doing it. Like children, inside incubation stage there is no reward or punishment for learning or doing what you really like, you are just actively engaged in the process of learning. There is no boss or higher authority. Indeed, you will learn that the child in you is intrinsically motivated to learn. A more fundamental and useful way to think about incubation stage involves accepting the concept of intrinsic motivation, which refers to the process of doing an activity for its own sake, of doing an activity for the reward that is inherent in the activity itself just like children do. Children do things not to achieve a goal; they are curious and they want to know. Children are curious and learn intrinsically. Inside incubation stage you learn the technique to be intrisically motivated again. Like children, being intrinsically motivated has more to do with completely involved in an activity and not achieving a goal.
Einstein asked questions that were so fundamental that the answers transformed our understanding of the physical universe. In the study of Einstein, Howard Gardner in his excellent book Creating Minds examines the connection between the kinds of questions a gifted child ponders, and the nature of training and thinking required for the adult practioner to answer such questions. In the same manner, professor Gardner examines Picasso and the relationship between productivity associated with youthful prodigiousness, on the one hand, and with mature mastery, on the other. Gardner says if , in early life, children have the opportunity to discover much about their world and to do so in a comfortable, exploring way, they will accumulate invaluable "capital of creativity," on which they can draw in later life. If, on the other hand, children are restrained from such discovering activities, pushed in only one direction, or burdened with the view that there is only one correct answer, or that correct answers must be meted out only by those in authority, then the chances that they will ever cast out on their own are significantly reduced.
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