Super conscious mind for triggering creativity for designers
17 Nov 2023 · 19 min
A designer shares techniques to unlock creativity through your superconscious mind: solitude, breath work, napping, music, trusting intuition, and embracing failure. The practices range from meditation to reading widely and talking to strangers.
How you can really tap into your superconscious power in order to become more creative, like 10x20x, even 100x to become a great guy in terms of ideating and solving the problem. Right. One of the major things designers always look for and they are very curious about finding out what is this? A lot of people talk about subconscious mind, but there is a very beautiful thing which I learned from my mentor, Brain Crazy, which is called superconscious mind. This podcast is going to give you how you can really trigger your superconscious mind. And how you can understand what has happened in your life is very much relatable to what you are right now and how you can be creative with that kind of a encounters. Okay. Yes. With this, we'll start this podcast of understanding how you can become more creative using your superconscious powers. Welcome, guys. Welcome, welcome. Thank you for staying tuning in with me for Design for Change podcast. So particularly when it comes to the topic of creativity, there are many methods, what people used to call for, okay, I really believe in universe. I really believe in infinite intelligence. There is something called superconscious mind. I'll tell you a short story you'll be able to understand better. Okay, So a lot of times before, like ancient times, I don't know whether the story is real or not, but the kind of impact what it has created, it seems like it can be real. Also, a lot of times before in the human history, people have thought there is a super secret which everybody can able to access it. But we will not keep it deliberately easy so that somebody can misuse it where we can go and hide it. That is called infinite intelligence. If you go and tap there, thousands of ideas will come to you spontaneously. You will be able to ideate more even which is not in your purview, in your knowledge, you can still able to get that knowledge from that is called infinite intelligence. Okay, so people have tried to find, tried, tried to hide it in the top of the mountain. Then the counselors of the God said, no man will anyway find it if it is there in the top. So then they said, we'll put in the deep of the ocean where he cannot even go there. Then the council members said, no man is very intelligent. He will bring technology and other things to go deep into the sea to find it. So then where we can really hide, where the human will not even think of searching it, that's where they put it inside of your heart. And when you're able to tune into that, you will be able to get a direct connection to superconscious mind. See, there is a disclaimer here. I am not the superconscious power mind expert or any kind of what you call mind reading expert and all. I just learned this concept and I've just found something. Certain patterns in my lifestyle, in my lifestyle, how the superconscious has really helped me save certain incidents and help improve my creativity also, which is what I'm sharing with you. Okay? Yes. So this is the disclaimer. I wanted to make it clear. So there are many methods you can activate your mind. Superconscious mind. The first way I would suggest is you can go into a state of solitude. What does mean by solitude? Solitude is actually sitting calm and idle in a place for at least 20 to 30 minutes. What happens is every particular day 60,000 thoughts are coming into our mind. Whether you believe it or not, it's a scientifically proven fact. And also people need at least 10,000 hours to train one particular skill. Right? This is the both things that you need to understand in the whole. If you sit in solitude, if you sit down and calmly, do not have coffee, do not look at anywhere, just close your eyes and sit, what will happen is all the thoughts will come down. Possibilities are best. More dominant thought will rise up from you. And whatever you're working on a problem, or whatever you're working on a solution, or whatever you're working on some ideation or something, automatically the best optimal solution will come out. Whether it's a profession, whether it's a relationship, whether it's anything. So this kind of a clarity you will get when you are able to sit in solid. This is the first way you can activate your superconscious mind. The second thing is you can focus on your breath. See, there are a lot of meditation practice and all, whichever is convenient you can do. But focusing on the breath will largely improve your concentration. See, solitude is different. This is different. Focus and attention are the biggest asset and wealth. Warren Buffett and Microsoft, Bill Gates used to say this. So when somebody said to focus anything for a longer period of time, their success is inevitable. So if you're able to focus on your breath, you need to have something to focus. You can't just let that sit and automatically our mind is a monkey mind, it will wander. So you can use some of the vipassana techniques, you can use some mindfulness techniques. Whatever is comfortable for you, you can use normally. I follow vipassana technique for 10, 15, 20, 30 minutes. That helps a lot to bring you good Ideas. And after this sessions, I did a lot of good ideas and brought a lot of creative topics to design and teach my curriculum for our students also. So that really worked. So you can use that. You don't know what is that, but it will automatically get you lot many good ideas if your intention is clear. Okay, the third thing is you can first relax yourself. You can practice the habit of relaxing. You will have to know when to really push yourself, when to really relax. When you are really relaxed, the state of flow and ideas keep emerging in you. If you are getting tensed with timelines or financial pressure or any kind of a boss pressure or this that what happens is you really end up in a bad state. Always think about the consequence. What else will happen if I don't do it right? What else will happen? Yeah, maybe we'll lose the job or maybe we'll go financially broke. Of course we can come back from it. There are thousands of people who have been in that situation. They've come out right? So just relax and you will see a lot of ideas and creativity flowing inside you. Okay, this is the third technique. Fourth is you can have a short nap. Like it's been said. Like Thomas Alva Edison used to take 45 minutes nap or maybe 45 seconds nap also. And he will exactly think in his mind after this 45 seconds. I'm going to be getting a great idea from this universe. And the point is he'll get that huge ideas. He has patented over thousand plus products and innovations across the world. One third of the whole, 1/4 of the whole population of America was working for him in his industry. Right? So that kind of a man he was. So he used the technique to try to tap into that infinite intelligence. And he has not even he has even committed and even he has even said that a lot of things which is done by my own brain and idea, which is all coming from some higher powers which I have not even been aware of. You can read a book called Think and Grow Rich and a lot of things, whatever he said has been explained there. So you will understand infinite intelligence even more better there to improve your creativity. And the fifth way is you can start listening to music. If you are a good dancer, if you are really good in classical music, if you are good in any kind of composing music, you can able to try to engage in some kind of a creative performance activity. What happens is it will really start to trigger your mind in terms of thinking more. See, Mozart was the best guy in the music in the world, right? He doesn't need any practice. He directly starts and then he plays. This guy was said he uses infinite intelligence directly from the superconscious mind so that he can able to play without any kind of a. What you call rehearsals or any kind of practice and all. And Bitha one? Bitha one was deaf. He is not able to hear his music. But the point is he has created some of the best classical music in the entire world. Still wondering how come he will create, right? Particularly if a senses is not there. How one can really create that. You need to think about it. After hearing this kind of stories only I was able to really correlate to how superconscious mind really worked in order to get more ideas. Okay, let's go for the next point, which is sixth point. Let me tell you guys, you need to accept failures. It is very important to accept failures. We have been seasoned in a way to really tell, hey, don't fail in life. Don't take risk in life. Be safe, be careful. That's a very wrong seasoning. What we had because of our parenting and because of our relatives or because of your environment, friends and all. You need to accept the failure and you to really, really become okay with that. We cannot become successful without failures. That's the nature of law. If you're thinking against it, then you're going against the nature of law. That becomes a big problem, right? So you need to accept that failure and you need to just calm down. That itself will turn you into a creative person. Because you're not judging anybody and nobody's judging you. You are just going on your own way. That brings uniqueness and creativity in you. Okay? And the thing is, the seventh point is you need to trust your intuitional voice. I'll tell you one story. You will understand this intuitional voice. You know Archimedes, right? What he did, he was bathing in the water tub and he found that principle of water and how much displacement of the water can be measured using putting an object inside the bathtub when he was bathing, that he got that idea. The moment that intuition came to him, he was like mind blown. He started shouting, Eureka. Eureka. Eureka. Eureka has a word. Like I don't know the exact meaning of it. It's like, I got it, I ideated it, I innovated it. Something like that, I guess. So he was very happy shouting this word eureka. Entire world knows it, right? So this is really out of something he's been researching for a lot of years. He's not able to get that idea. But suddenly when he was in the bath, when he was even listening to his inner voice, sometimes he got that idea lot. Many times this will happen guys, if you are not calm, we won't be able to even tap into that properly. Right? So this is the seventh one. And the eighth one is you will encounter certain random people. Have you seen there will be some guys who will be saying to you in the bus or train, sir, do not sit here. Rain will come. Surprisingly, the rain will really come. If you look at this guy, he won't be there. And you can really find somebody giving you free advices or maybe some kind of important information where it is time dated. The point is you need to understand and listen to it and then follow it. What happens is if you are not following and thinking too much, sometimes it will go away. Sometimes the person will not be there. And if you do it late, what will happen is you won't get the benefit. And there are a lot many examples guys, which is for this kind of a stranger encounters. Which is actually the power of superconscious. Where you will be encountering these people randomly. Sometimes it'll add huge creative idea for you. And the ninth ways you can read variety of literatures. See thinking in design. Thinking about design only I'll read about design is not the point. You should read about music. You should read about cricket. You should read about what are the other sports which you can do. What are the other performance odds. What are the other subjects? Technical. The more variety and varsity you go, the better creative person you will become. That is one of the things which is proven and you can able to implement it right now. Maybe your hobbies are very different, but you can try to tune into different variety of hobbies which can make you totally a different person altogether. And this will really blow you guys. You will be becoming very surprised that whenever you sit in ideation sessions, you become super creative and nobody's able to even stop you. Okay, the tenth thing is unexpected event. This is a beautiful thing, guys. When you're having a goal. See guys, all these points. Subconscious activity, superconscious activity, whatever we're discussing so far now, when you have clear goals for your career, you'll be able to tap this properly. If you're randomly going here and there. I will study product design. I'll study UI UX design. I'll get job one day. I'll. I'm applying for jobs one day. This is not goals. People think getting job is goal. No, I wanted a product design role with so and so salary. With so and so designation before this December 2023, I need to get 60,000 per month, something like that. The clarity is there, then you will be able to even reach there. And a lot of things, encounters, strangers, activities which will come into you when you have that goal. The major, major important part is if you have the goal, things will attract to you a lot more faster than without the good. So superconscious mind is more active when you have a specific, written, measurable, achievable, relevant and time bound goals. That is called smart. I've recorded a separate podcast for it. You can go and listen to it. How you can set goals, being a designer. And let me tell you one major thing. Peter Drucker, one of the management gurus of all time, he says unexpected success and unexpected failures were the big turnover and one cause of any business to go up or down. So he itself tells that unexpected success. He has studied almost all the brands, all the management, all the people psychology. He's like the management guru of the all time, I would say so he said the one big factor of any business to success or failure is unexpected success or failure. So you can definitely expect that unexpected events in your life and you should let it go then and only you will be able to see some pattern out of it. And let me tell you one interesting story, guys. There was actually a guy who was in the middle of the night, he was actually traveling to somewhere else. Okay, so the thing is he's actually Churchill, his name is Churchill. And he was the most wealthiest family in the whole of the history. And there was a guy called Fleming, okay, so he was, he was traveling randomly in the road and he was about to go and get accident and then he got accident and he is about to fell into that particular water. So Fleming saved him from happening. Fleming saved his life because of he was there at that time and then he saved him. Churchill was very grateful for the help what Fleming offered. And he said, okay, so I'm the wealthiest person, I can offer you one thing because you saved my life, right? So I'll sponsor all of your education and you can really learn from here. Because Fleming is from a very poor normal family, he's not able to do it. So the thing is he got 100% scholarship for his education and he become a very big, what you call person. And he researched a lot of things. And when he was able to do some kind of a bacteria research in his lab, there is something called a mycelium group of bacteria which was automatically developed and something else fell from the other Studio lab. Okay. Whenever they are doing a experimental lab, the other near studio, whatever they had some kind of a bacteria flew in the air and then it hit here. That particular bacteria was so damn strong, it killed the entire mycelium group. And then people were very much surprised. So Fleming was out of the lab at that time. One assistant told him that there was a bacteria accidentally flew in and then it destroyed all these things. So can we throw it and start the experiment again? Fleming was like, no, just wait. If this bacteria has killed all these things, then it should be damn powerful than any other thing. Let me understand what is that bacteria? Let me try to make what is that bacteria? You know, guys, this is actually called penciling. Pensillon saved thousands and thousands of people's lives in World War. His name is Alexander Fleming, right? See how the kind of help what Winston Churchill has helped and how this particular scholarship has helped him? That's not the end of the story. Just wait. Once Randolph Churchill was having another health issue. Above the age of 60 or 70, he is attacked by a flu. And it was very peculiar. Nobody is able to cure him properly. Everybody was searching for a medicine and nobody is able to save him properly. And the big problem is he's about to die. So there was a call to Alexander Fleming because he was a very famous scientist because of this penicillin and discovery, and he got Nobel Prize and everything. So they asked him, can you come up with something to save Rudolph Churchill? He was like, okay, let me work on it. He got something like a very good solution which has saved him. So he was saved twice, right? The kind of help what he did, it's come back to you. And it's very unexpected. Lot of tragedies, lot of incidents. Lot of big things have happened, guys, because of these unexpected events. See, you should be not very rigid to think about this kind of things. You should be like, oh, I'm a very rational girl. I'll not believe in this. There are some patterns which has already happened. It is good to understand the history and just learn from it, whether it is really sinking for our life or not. When I was hearing for the first time, I was not able to exactly comprehend. Many times if I start hearing this. The thing is, I started seeing the pattern in my life also. And a lot of correlation is really happening unexpected events. Like, let's say if I've set a goal like this Saturday, I need to go to this place automatically. Things will happen like, I will not have money, I will not have the appointment, I will not have something but the thing is automatically things will happen, okay? Suddenly some kind of. What do you call some kind of a money will come from your parents or office and then somebody else will book the appointment. And then people will be turning up. All your friends will be, okay, we can travel on Saturday and automatically the plan will happen. This is sequence of unexpected events. The point is it will happen. See guys, superconscious mind is a great thing. If you are able to have a clear written goal, you will be able to tap superconscious much better. Any thought, plan, goal or idea held continuously in conscious mind must be in reality by the superconscious mind. I'll read it one more time. Any thought, plan, goal or idea held continuously in conscious mind must be in reality by superconscious mind. Why I read twice is you need to understand. Because I also took a lot of time to understand this statement. If you're able to hold that automatically you will become 10x20x even 100x creativity guy. And sometimes you'll be even surprised at the middle of the night you will get some idea. Have you seen some of the people? Have you really seen? I've really heard. I've seen a lot of people in the middle of the night. They'll automatically open and sketch something and they'll write some formulas and they'll sleep and they'll sleep for the entire night like they're completely exhausted. And the point is, whatever they've written is dev creative is dev code which no human history has ever thought about or researched about that kind of a topics. Big mathematical formulas and big scientific innovations and discoveries have come from that. So when you're continuously in the state of flow of thinking about that, automatically you will receive that idea anytime. And when you're able to get that, even if it's asleep also you'll be able to wake up and and write it down something. And that will become a masterpiece for you Again. Do not wait for that midnight thing and all it is an incident which has happened for many people. So that will happen different different things for different, different people. Sometimes people get it in the state of solitude. Sometimes people get it in focus. Sometimes get it. People get it in terms of relaxed state. Sometimes people take nap and get it. I told you, right? Sometimes people do a creative stuff like music, dance and they get it. Sometimes people are very, very intuitional. They hear their voice and they get it. Sometimes people encounter stranger things and they read lot materials to become creative and they expect unexpected events. This kind of things will have an impact on superconscious mind. See guys, everything will matter. Once only have you have a proper goal. If you're not having goal and a plan and a priority to achieve it, nothing will happen. But if you have the goals and you're able to even tap superconscious mind power, let me tell you one thing. What people have achieved in lifetime you can achieve in just one or two or three years and you will be damn damn successful. You will be healthy, you will be happy. You will most amazingly living the highest quality and standards of life. Okay, so to close this podcast, take action and think about any three points to implement it in your routine habit as 21 days to follow it. Okay? Thank you so much guys. I hope you would have loved this podcast. Give me your best rating if you found this valuable in Apple and Spotify. Thank you so much guys. Take care. Bye bye.