Creative Unlearning: The Art Of Reinvention

Creative unlearning offers us something sensational. If we want to recover our true potential, sometimes there is no choice but to put aside many of those beliefs and learnings that have been instilled in us … to see the world from another perspective. This new vision must be broad, richer in curiosity and criticism; Only then will we reinvent ourselves, only then will we be freer.

Talking about creativity is talking about human capital. Let’s think about it for a moment: we are facing a job market where a large part of us are trained (formed) in very similar skills and abilities. However, what large companies need is to innovate to position themselves in an increasingly complex and demanding social and economic scenario.

It is not difficult to understand what it means today to have highly creative people and how highly valued they are due to their scarcity. These profiles are the ones who provide the “spark” to those rusted gears of many organizations, where any change, in a stage of stagnation, is undoubtedly a great advance, a valuable achievement. In itself and for what it means to break with an inertia of immobility.

Furthermore, we cannot neglect what it means on a personal level to be much more creative, more open to complexity and more ingenious when it comes to providing answers to life’s problems. This flexibility of mind and capacity is a great way to invest in our personal growth.

Achieving it is at our fingertips …

Creative unlearning: I choose to grow

Be equal to others or be someone capable of standing out. Live stagnant in monotony and mediocrity or choose to grow in every way: emotionally, personally and professionally … What field would you choose? As Aristotle once said,  happiness must be the purpose in which the rest are gathered. For this, it is essential to assimilate and train those psychological and emotional resources that will allow us to look a little more like the person we want to be.

One way to achieve this is by training ourselves precisely in that capacity that we all have, that which comes from the factory: creativity. If we have doubts about it, if we think that if anything characterizes us is to be unoriginal and nothing creative, worth reading the book of Alice W. Flaherty neuroscientist, ” The Midnight Disease” ( The disease midnight ) .

It explains to us how our own emotions, experiences and even the educational systems themselves “make us sick” little by little, extinguishing our spark, our creative potential, our motivations …

Thus, to “heal” ourselves, reinvent ourselves, and awaken our dormant potential, we must put creative unlearning into practice. To achieve this, nothing better than training. In “Mind is Wonderful”, Professor Ismael Cala, Life and Human Development Strategist, proposes that we become the person we really want through his course “Creativity, unlearning, and Emotional Intelligence”.

The importance of breaking away from the single gaze

Reinventing yourself is not easy, because reinventing yourself, if we think about it, is scary. It is little more than an act of childbirth where we leave behind part of who we were before to give way to a different “me”. How to achieve such a change? It is true that companies value innovation and creativity, but somehow, society itself prefers us passive, it prefers us silent, docile and with similar preferences.

Let’s face it, reinventing ourselves is a challenge that not all of us are prepared for. We must be able, therefore, to break with the single gaze; simply, “wake up”, wake up to rediscover our essences, and in turn take all that internal value to take it abroad and position ourselves, with our own voice, decisively and creatively.

Let’s see below some keys to achieve it or at least to reflect on this important task.

3 keys to creative unlearning

• Creative unlearning does NOT mean forgetting or pressing the “reset” to eliminate everything that we have been told, taught or transmitted. Above all, it means knowing how to question, knowing how to question, and above all, never accepting unique looks or unquestionable truths.
• Unlearning also proposes us to work our Emotional Intelligence to the maximum. Many of our emotions, habits, beliefs, and attitudes veto our creativity.
• Another aspect that we must work on is flexibility. Many of our vital and emotional experiences can cause that almost without realizing it, we apply a very rigid type of thinking and limited only to what one considers correct or acceptable. However, being able to open ourselves to experience, to be flexible, to practice criticism and self-criticism, will undoubtedly allow us to improve our human potential.

To conclude, more sophisticated when it comes to providing answers to vital problems. Therefore, let us not hesitate to train ourselves in this capacity, either through specialized courses or books.