Creativity Pathway #114:
Unconscious Competence
Erika Jackson
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 In a recent
Pathway, I challenged you to think about your creativity, or perceived lack of
it Click.
If you do not believe yourself to be a creative or artistically talented person,
perhaps it's time to take a look at your unconscious mind.
In the field of organizational development, we often talk of the stages of
learning and, in them, the spectrum between conscious incompetence and
unconscious competence. In learning theory, conscious incompetence exists in the
knowing that you are unable to perform a task well. The achievement of
unconscious competence occurs when you are so successful at performing a task it
is "automatic," with little thought required regarding the actions as you are
performing them.
I believe that even those claiming to be "uncreative" during their waking hours
have an active "automatic" creativity in their dream states. In our dreams we
reconstruct stories, create images, and become things that we could never have
imagined consciously. Dreams can be as vivid as a painting, as resonant as
music, and as symbolic as poetry.
In The Art of Dreaming, Jill Mellick, Ph.D. tells us, "Dreams prove that in our
inner world we are effortless and talented creative artists -- superb wordsmiths,
mythmakers, fine artists, and craftspeople of simile, metaphor, symbol and
imagery unbounded by the cognitive restrictions in waking life."
It has been said that conscious creations of art come from the same source in
our minds as our unconscious dreams. If this is true then, in our dream states,
we are all unconsciously competent artists. The ability to create is innately
within each one of us and, whether waking or sleeping, there is art to be
expressed.
Coaching Challenge: Immediately upon waking, each day this week, consciously
stay connected to your creative unconscious competence. Before moving out of
bed, even before opening your eyes, ask yourself, "What images remain from my
dreams last night?" "What feelings linger from my dream state?"
"Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose, won't you let me go down in my
dreams?" -- James Taylor
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May you be filled with goodness, peace, and joy.
Erika Jackson
(Erika@LifeTrekCoaching.com)
LifeTrek Coaching International
Columbus, OH
U.S.A.
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