Using Writing, Speaking, and Words to Open The Creative Mind to Innovate

By Lance Winslow

It’s not easy become a superstar of creativity or a master of innovation, and yet, it is not as hard as you might think either. Not long ago, I met an individual who invented some software that helped promote the innovative mind by re-combining areas of the human endeavor in unique ways. The software worked on the theory of randomness, although, I’d hardly call it totally random. After the software combined stuff it would ask questions and the user could determine if the matched phrases brought up any ideas.

Sure enough it did, pretty cool indeed. Still, you do not need software to do this, as you can do it with your writing or speaking without computer assisted help. Here is how I’ve done it in the past. I decided to write 1,000s of articles of about 250 words each, but then I ran out of things to write about so, I took words from the dictionary and started combining them. For instance with the “A’s” I used abate, accelerate, advance, aerial, after, against. Notice the Ab, Ac, Ad, Ae, Af and Ag at the start of each word.

Then I’d say them out loud and try to make titles to articles or headlines out of them like; Accelerated Abatement of Advance Aerial, what? Then I’d try to finish the sentence or heading and I might add something like Accelerated Abatement of Advanced Aerial - Design Materials for Stealth Aircraft. So, then I’d write 250 words on this topic, do some research, ask more questions and let my mind go, until I came up with something innovative, novel, intriguing or worthy.

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Believe You Are the Most Interesting Person to Talk To

By Vincent Ng

Success begins with belief and ends with doubt.-Larina Kasse

I remember reading through a book and the author was writing about being a reverse paranoid. In that particular section he mentions how he has a belief that the world he’s living in, is out to give him everything he absolutely wants and desires. He believes that people are giving him job opportunities. He believes that people want to do business with him. He thinks that instead of the world out to do him bad, he thinks that all the world wants to do is give him everything he’s ever craved.

There are times when I think to myself, “Wow the world is out to get me and make me miserable” Then I thought, why can’t I believe that the world is out to make me a better conversationalist. What if I do believe that everybody finds me absolutely interesting and a pleasure to chat with? How different would my own inner world be? Then I started adapting the belief of the reverse paranoia. When I started talking to people, I truly believed that I was the MOST interesting person in the room. I believed that everything I said added value to the conversation. I believed that people stayed behind and chatted with me because they found me charismatic.

As a matter of fact for about five months I wrote down (with a dry erase marker) on my bathroom mirror the following affirmation. I use to say it while I was brushing my teeth, and I visualized in my head having perfect conversations with total strangers I had just met.

“People love me and respect me. It is a privilege to talk to me. People find me interesting and charming and always want to get to know me better!”

I would say the affirmation after I brushed my teeth. And I would continue to say it until I felt completely great about myself. I would repeat it until I felt that I convinced myself that I truly was the most intriguing person in the world. Some days it would take me only thirty seconds to have the belief that I was an excellent talker. Other times I would spend five minutes, saying the same line over and over again with varying degrees of enthusiasm, until I said it with complete enthusiasm. There were days that I just wouldn’t feel like like saying it, because it would feel like a lie to me. But that’s the trouble, like the quote says, success ends when there’s doubt. And that’s why I continued until I had no doubt in my mind.

Then strange things happened, I noticed that people did find me more interesting, that I gained more confidence in talking with people, and as a matter of fact I started to be comfortable to talking to women I was afraid to talk to in the past. The number of dates I was going on, at least doubled. I was more assertive at work . I was able to control politics and gossip at work to minimal levels, and became a much better manager, and developed better customer relations to the point that sales were up by 20% percent compared to the year before, on my best month sales were up by 39%, and this was a year that a recession was happening. Of course it wasn’t the only factor, but it did help a lot to reprogram my brain to believe, and beliefs are very powerful. The more small victories I saw, the more I believed.

Now I’m not promising that you’ll achieve miracles with an affirmation, but I promise you that writing down an affirmation and communicating it with yourself will not hinder your progress. After all how much does it cost you to have this belief? Absolutely NOTHING. That’s the best part. That believing you’re a great conversationalist isn’t going to cost you any more than it does to believe you’re a terrible one. But I guarantee you if you continue to believe that you’re a terrible conversationalist, it is going to cost you in many ways. It’s going to cost you financial opportunities, promotions, chances at friendships, leading a more fun and exciting lifestyle, and being a better leader in your community.

How can you get started?

First, choose an affirmation or statement that’s relatively short, easy to remember, and makes you excited when you say it. If your affirmation is “I’m a great conversationalist.” There’s no fireworks to it. Notice in my affirmation how I give my statement life. Ensure you give your affirmation a life of its own.

Second, write down your affirmation where you know you’re going to see it every day. This could be on your bathroom mirror, this could be in your wallet, on a sticky note in your car, or on the screen saver at work or home. Whatever your affirmation may be, place in some where visible. Put in in BIG WORDS on a poster by your entrance door, so that way when you leave your home you’ll be forced to see it when you leave.

Third, repeat your affirmation to yourself with a sense of purpose and excitement. This way your brain processes the belief much easier. We always learn more in a fun environment, than in an environment that harbors boredom. Don’t create a boring environment in your mind, create fun, excitement, and spirit. But say it with passion. When you get a chance, say it several times throughout the day. During your coffee break, when you’re taking the bus home, and just before you go to sleep.

Fourth, visualize what it would be like to have great conversations with people that you admire. No matter how brief it is, just visualize. I didn’t expect to have a small conversation with one of my idols Brian Tracy, but yet three years after I started reading his books, which changed my life and management style, I had a brief conversation with him. We ended up discussing his trip as a teenager in Africa and how he traveled into countries without the proper visas. So imagine having those positive conversations with the people you admire and you want to meet.

Whatever you do, you have to have the belief that you are a great conversationalist. And you have to be able to tell yourself that every single day until you start to see the results in your life.

One of my students in my class brought up the comment, “I’m always worried that I’m boring people.” Yet she was probably one of the least boring people I had ever met. She had grown up in a tropical area of the world where she would do body boarding growing up. She use to “borrow” the boards from hotels. She mentioned that she had a near death experience on a small plane one time after attending a family reunion. And that’s just one part of her life. She had such a rich tapestry that she was shy about sharing because she thought she was boring. But to the contrary, she was exciting to talk to. Each and every one of us has a best selling non fiction story to share with the world, it’s just whether we believe it’s a best seller or not. So don’t ever believe you’re a boring person, you’ve lived a life, had some challenges, and therefore you are the most interesting person to talk to. And that makes you a NY Times Best Sellers!

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Why Do We Need Human Writers

By Lance Winslow

There are many jobs that include writing, and creative thought. Often, there are people in these fields that make good amount of money, no most do not, but there are some that do. The question is what about all the rest? Do we really need humans to do all that writing? Think about it and think about how much better artificial intelligence is getting these days?

Did you know there is a computer scientist that has programmed software that has written 261,000 books? It’s true and the program scans text in hundreds of different categories and then re-arranges the sentences using grammatical rules. Is this plagiarism?

Hard to say, it sounds like it, but he is taking information from hundreds of sources and combining them, and he has the computer re-write it all. Now mind you he’s only been doing this a little while, a few years, but the eBooks he creates are readable, understandable and packed with information. Okay, so those are nonfiction books; what about fictional works?

Will someone create a computer program that can weave humor, mystery, conflict, and intrigue into a story with created characters in a realistic setting? Will this artificially intelligent software be better, worse or indistinguishable from a human author? When someone does perfect this, will they put their name on the works, would we know the difference? Would they flood the market crowding out human writers?

Folks this future is coming, so if a human writer gets too arrogant or think that they will compete in the future with computers and artificial software that writes, well, then, they are only kidding themselves. Just don’t let them kid you. Please consider all this.

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Calling All Inspired to Be Writers - No Excuses, Start Writing Today! Part 1

By Tony Ferguson

So you say, I would love to write, but have nothing to say, or I’m not a famous celebrity. Well, everyone has something to say, whether it’s good or bad. Maybe you woke up this morning with a headache, and you finally opened up some bills you were dreading, because you know what they are going to say. So you read the love letter from some collector filled with sweet words of encouragement, on how they are going to mess up your credit. By turning your account over to a collection agency if you don’t pay now! And I mean now. That means, you better call him or her today with your debit, credit card or PayPal payment.

Now tell me you don’t have something to write about! Well, you have not even had your morning coffee yet! And why did you wake up early in the morning with a headache? Answer, because you’re stressed out! Because you go to work at a job you hate, but need. And would slap your boss silly if you could, but you don’t. That’s if you want to keep a roof over your youngsters head. Let’s not forget, it takes food and water to continue living. But most important you continue to work at a job you hate because, this is the best you can do for now. And you are a man or woman with pride who works for what you want in life.

Yes, you have plenty to say, take all your stress and put it to your pen or pencil, and talk real talk. Say what’s on your mind! Take your hobby, and write about your passion. Some of my best poems and writings were created doing the worst times of my life. Because, they were created based on actual, and factual events of my life that were real. My pen, is my therapy!

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