Using the halves together

 

Creating your creativity

 

Experts have identified five stages of creativity. The first two and the last need left brain skills whereas the third and the fourth need the right brain.

 

Preparing:     Gathering information, identifying major issues, defining the problem and clarifying goals.

 

Focusing:     Discipline yourself to tune out distractions in order to focus on immediate activity.

 

Sleeping over it:     Synthesize, collate, let the sub-conscious mind do the work. It knows best.

 

Sudden insight:      Let a spontaneous new insight - an expert mix of visuals, sounds and intuition - blossom at the culmination of the incubation process.

 

Weighing up: Analyze and see the feasibility of a concept in its entirety. Plan a sequence of steps to be followed.