The Four Stages of Creativity

The things that are in our minds that are not consciously accessible to us are by definition, not consciouslyaccessible to us. So merely asking ourselves what our non-conscious minds are up to will not give us the answers. One way to get at what's happening is to follow a path that artists, designers and inventors take as they engage in the process of discovery. We can ask ourselves questions like, why am I so unhappy? What do I really want? What's bothering me? What's happening inside of me? And when we ask those questions, we don't know the answer right away but very often we begin to get hints.