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Lessons learned
What is
lessons learned
Overall goal
in capturing creative lessons learned
A cause
event chain to any situation
Learning
from other in creative endeavors
Summary generic lessons learned
Hold your creativity sacred
Create a life worth living
Learn what serves
Allow effectiveness to be you measure of truth
Become mindful and aware
Learn to pull the string
Learn to use our intuitive guidance
Clarity of intention and single point focus
Become aware of our nonconscious intentions
There is an old proverb which
states: “An individual learns from their
mistakes. A wise individual learns from the mistakes of others.
A fool never learns.” There is no reason why we cannot all become
wise and learn from the mistakes of others. There is no reason to
repeat the mistakes of others.
What is lessons learned
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Lessons learned is simply about
reviewing our own actions or the actions of others relative to a
given topic. Usually, lessons learned are about reviewing negative
or undesired outcomes. But, that does not need to be. Successful
endeavors need to be reviewed just as much as unsuccessful
endeavors. Here the topics is about creativity. Lessons learned is
to review the creative actions of others to see what was experienced
and what can be learned so as to do, or not do, similar actions in
the future relative to causing certain events to occur or not occur.
Creation is infinite. There are an infinite number of ways to
experience any one aspect of this infinitely vast Creation. It will
take some faction of an infinite number of experiences for
mind to begin to see exactly how creation/Creation works and to
experience its true depth and breadth. Fortunately, through oral and
written communication, humanity has learned to capture and share
lessons learned. We, as individual entities, do not have to
personally have all the necessary experiences that go into a given
endeavor. We can learn from the experiences of others and build on
what they have discovered. We have learned to share the experiences
of others and no longer have any need to repeat their
mistakes. Or, maybe better said, we have no need to repeat what
others have done whether it was a mistake or not. We can learn from
both the successes and failures of others.
For any experience
mind has. mind characterizes that experience the best it can
based on the experiences it has had. Education has been so powerful
because it is a way to learn from the experiences of others and
expand our base of experience. However, there is an issue we need to
face when it comes to textbook type learning We can learn from the
experience of others but we need to understand knowing something in
mind is not necessarily the same as actually having directly
experienced it and/or its implications. To think of throwing a ball
to hit a target is a different experience than actually throwing a
ball. But once you throw the ball you can connect the idea and the
experience. To exercise our creativity and to experience what we
know mentally about creativity we will have to do our own
experiments. We have to do our own experiments with what we know to
know the truth of what we know for ourselves. It is to know the
truth for ourselves as opposed to regurgitating the truth as stated
by others. We will have to do our own experiments to make what we
know in mind an experiential knowing. This is especially true
relative to our creative power. There is only so much that can be
learned from a book. To understand the process of creativity, we
have to create something.
The Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity approach helps us to learn
from the experience and, sometimes, the
mistakes of others. It looks to help each of us to become wise
in our creative endeavors no matter what our creative endeavors may
be. It In this regard, there are things we can learn about how the
lives of others have changed when we enter a creative endeavor. We
can begin to understand and have some idea as to what to expect when
we step into the unknown to consciously embrace our
creative spirit.
Overall goal in capturing creative lessons learned
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The overall goal in capturing
creative lessons learned is to create
a life worth living and a life that creatively
serves us and allows us to
hold
our creativity sacred in whatever we do. It is to be able to
create a life such that living that life provides an
inner satisfaction
that never runs dry no matter what is happening in our external
world. It is to learn to create such a life in a relatively fastest,
easiest and gentler way than can be found that would have otherwise
been possible without lessons learned.
A
cause event chain to any situation
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One of the primary understanding
in exploring lessons learned is that there is a cause event chain to
all that occurs. That is, there is a series of actions that lead up
to any one event or experience we have. From studying the
cause effect relationship in physics and years of accident
reviews to improve safety it is clear that things do not just
happen. We can learn there always exist a chain of events. Lessons
learned is to begin to see event chains long before they manifest in
a actual experience.
Nothing is isolated by itself. There are events which lead up to any
other event and for any given event there are what can be called
precursors. Precursors are events that foretell the future
unfoldment of a situation if things are not changed. They are.
indicators or forecasters of things which can occur and which will
occur if something does not change relative to the ongoing chain of
events. If we see and understand the precursors, we then have the
options and freedom to change the unfolding chain of events.
The concept of lessons learned arises from accident analysis and an
investigation into what caused that accident. It is to review the
circumstances of an accident and look to all the events that
contributed to that accident to see what can be changed to prevent
that accident from reoccurring.
Lessons learned is about learning to “pull
the string” on “why this as opposed to why that.”The question is
whether or not we are persistent and observant enough to find the
answers we seek.
Learning from others in creative endeavors
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Any truly creative endeavor is a
step into the unknown. It is to bring into existence something not
previously seen or experienced or something significantly different
from the past.
Mind only knows the past and what it has experienced. It is
limited in what it guidance it can provide to create something.
To be truly creative about something will take us past what our
mind knows. In this regard there are two types of creative
endeavors. There are endeavors that are creative for us but not for
another. That is, there is another that has had the experience or
possessed the thing we desire to create. Here we step into the
unknown relative to our personal experience. This is the whole basis
of our education systems. They provided us the experiences of others
in situations where we do not have the time or desire to actually
have the experience. But to truly understand what is communicated,
we need to have an experience of what is communicated. This is why
there is a laboratory portion and a classroom portion with many
educations for there things that cannot be learned in the classroom.
Even when we create something for ourselves previously created by
another, there will be elements of the unknown in what we do and
experience. To truly understand any topic, we will still have to do
our own experiments even when others have done the same thing before
us.
The second way to create something is to create something never
previously experienced by any human. Or, at least we have no access
the lessons learned from other about what we desire to create. That
is, we create completely independently of whatever any one else
experienced. Here, in this type of creative endeavor, we totally
enter the unknown.
Mind will be useful only to the extent that our new creative
endeavor is similar to the past. If it is sufficiently different,
mind will be of little use to guide us. Hence the recommendation to
learn how to use our
intuitive guidance. Although the accuracy of intuitive guidance
is limited by the experiences we have had, it nevertheless provide
the correct direction in which we need to travel.
When we realize a truly creative endeavor takes us past our own
experiences and the experiences of others, the question becomes,
“What good are lessons learned from the experience of others or our
own past experience when we enter an unknown where the past if no
use?” The answer is that creative lessons learned tell us about the
creative process we face. We may not know any of the particular
details of what we face, but we can have an understanding of the
process we are going to face.
In understanding the process, there are many thing for which we can
be prepared rather than being taken totally by surprise. For
example, we can expect fears of the past to surface whenever we
experience an energy that appears to be like the past that give rise
to those fears. Or, we can expect a defensive response pattern to
arise whenever we experience an energy that feels like the past
where we were harmed or injured. In our creative endeavor, the
energy we experience may or may not be capable of causing us harm.
To response to an energy in a creative endeavor based on the past
without awareness we are only responding to the past and that will
cause us to abort our creation. We cannot create if we live in the
past. However, being aware of how we were injured and how we needed
to protect ourselves in the past allows us to face the energy and
to: (1) see if it is really the type and kind of energy we first
expected that can cause us harm; and (2) in the awareness of how to
protect ourselves, we can face the energy as it is with the ability
of reducing the harm or injury we face if not eliminating them.
Additionally there are generic ways of dealing with the unknown. In
knowing the
creative/creation process and the types and kinds of situations
that can cause us harm or injury, we can create a relatively faster,
easier and gentler way for any creative endeavor we undertake. How
much faster, easier and gentler totally depends on how different or
similar our creative endeavor is from what we have experienced. The
more what we create is like the past, the better we can address the
unknowns that arise. The more what we create is totally unlike the
past, the greater the change we can expect and the less we will be
able to anticipate what will happen. Nevertheless, because all
arises out of the same “stuff” or material of Creation, the greater
our depth and breadth of our experience of Creation, the better we
can address the unknowns which does arise.
Summary generic lessons
learned (Top)
In looking at the lessons learn in
and about creative endeavors, there are several generic statements
which can be made. It is recommended you can accept these at face
value and use them in your life as guiding principles. Or, if you
wish, you can discard them. But in the end, you probably will return
to them. The provided hyperlinks provide amplifying discussions
and/or comments.
Hold your creativity
sacred (Top):
Our creativity is what we use to get whatever we seek. It is our
most important asset in life. It is the basis of the
creativity perspective
on life. The Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material was
developed to help us to
hold
our creativity sacred.
Create a life worth
living (Top):
a life worth living is a life in which you are doing something
such that if you died and spent the rest of eternity doing what you
do now, you would enjoy eternity. It needs to be realized our life
is a creation unfolding. The aware consciousness within us will
always be creating. The focus should be on enjoying the process of
creating and not on what we create. The more we can be in the
process of creating the more we can enjoy whatever that process
brings into our life. This includes our death and return to life in
some other realm of Creation or to physical Creation.
Learn what serves
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We each are a unique creation. What serves me and allows me to
experience the fulness of Creation may not serve you. We each need
to learn what
serves us. We need to have thought, words, deeds and memories
which serve us and what we desire to create.
Allow
effectiveness to be you measure of truth
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We each are a unique creation. We each are here to have a different
experience of Creation. What serves me and is true for me may not
serve you and not be true for you. We each need to look to see what
is effective at creating what we desire to experience. We need to
allow effectiveness to be our measure of truth. What doesn’t
work needs to be discarded and something more useful and effective
utilized.
Become mindful and aware
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We need to become mindful and aware of the thoughts and intentions
we hold to become aware as to what surfaces in our
mind and in our life. We then need to pull the string as to why
we have the particular thought or experience we have as oppose to
any other.
Learn to pull the string
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There is a
cause effect chain for all that we experience. We can
pull the string on anything we experience and follow that cause
effect chain back as far as we wish. To get to the root as to why we
have the experiences we do and the thoughts we have that drive those
experiences we need to pull the string to see where and why they
originate.
Learn to use our
intuitive guidance (Top):
Our
intuitive guidance is the bridge point between the conscious
mind and the
nonconscious mind. It allows what is in our nonconscious mind to
be made conscious in some way. Although it may not be accurate in
the images or thought it present
for reasons stated elsewhere it is nevertheless accurate in
presenting the direction in which we need to travel. We can use it
to access the infinity of our own being and the infinity of
Creation. All is open to us through our intuitive guidance. We only
need to learn how to use it.
Clarity
of intention and single point focus
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Having
clarity of intent held with a
single point focus is the foundation of our
creative
ability. We need to develop each if we are going to manifest
what we desire.
Become
aware of our nonconscious intentions
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We all have
nonconscious - the
subconscious and unconscious - intentions. There are the
unconscious intentions that are addressed by the intention for our
life and the myriad of subconscious intentions which we have because
of the enculturation, programming, and experiences of our life. Many
of them simply scatter, divert and/or rob us of our creative power
and creative ability. Depending on what we desire to create, we may
have to raise many of these nonconscious intentions to understand
how they are influencing what we desire to create.
Related topics
Creative/creation process
Mistakes and the creativity perspective
Problem with lessons learned
The delusion of learning from experience
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