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Creativity

Creating something involves several stages. First, you brainstorm ideas, thinking freely about what you would like to create. This is the thinking phase. Second, you take action on the idea and go into the maintenance phase. During this phase you develop momentum and move the idea forward. Finally, you complete the idea.  There will always be a need for a final push to fully manifest the idea into a creation.
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Let’s take climbing as an example. You think creatively about routes you want to climb, let’s say in a redpoint style. You pick one challenging route and move into the maintenance phase as you begin taking action working the route. You develop momentum as you continue working on the route, and move the idea toward completion. During this phase you diminish the number of times you fall until you can climb it free with only one fall. Finally, you make the final push to eliminate the last fall to achieve the redpoint. You started with a creative idea, took action to maintain momentum, and followed through to completion, manifesting the idea into a redpoint ascent.
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Some climbers excel at coming up with ideas but then don’t take action. Other climbers can maintain motivation to act on an idea but aren’t effective in completing them. Still other climbers are better at completing ideas but not effective at coming up with them. All three phases are necessary for creating something.
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In the next several lessons we will investigate this process.

Matrix1 024-crop-w900-h700Creating something involves several stages. First, you brainstorm ideas, thinking freely about what you would like to create. This is the thinking phase. Second, you take action on the idea and go into the maintenance phase. During this phase you develop momentum and move the idea forward. Finally, you complete the idea.  There will always be a need for a final push to fully manifest the idea into a creation.

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Let’s take climbing as an example. You think creatively about routes you want to climb, let’s say in a redpoint style. You pick one challenging route and move into the maintenance phase as you begin taking action working the route. You develop momentum as you continue working on the route, and move the idea toward completion. During this phase you diminish the number of times you fall until you can climb it free with only one fall. Finally, you make the final push to eliminate the last fall to achieve the redpoint. You started with a creative idea, took action to maintain momentum, and followed through to completion, manifesting the idea into a redpoint ascent.

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Some climbers excel at coming up with ideas but then don’t take action. Other climbers can maintain motivation to act on an idea but aren’t effective in completing them. Still other climbers are better at completing ideas but not effective at coming up with them. All three phases are necessary for creating something. In the next several lessons we will investigate this process.

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One thought on “Creativity”

  1. Thanks for the timely topic. I am in the process of selecting a climb for a first redpoint project. There are many wonderful climbs out there, I just need to select one. Your comments above have me examining my capabilities with starting-maintaining-completing a project. I think it will take some creativity to work through all the aspects of the project…Looking forward to more Lessons. Thanks again.

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