Use Willpower: RsH-G1

Willpower demands Autonomy

Creativity does not just happen: it requires a challenge that is responded to positively and with courage. In the same way, the creative output does not just happen: you have to «make it happen». That is why its foundation is found in using willpower-RG1.

Function: The use of willpower allows you to release your personal energies and open up possibilities.

The 7 components of personal endeavour are subtly altered to become different ways in which you can exploit your autonomy effectively. Willpower must be applied to each of these 7 components, and you can think of it as flowing through 7 conduits. The formal name for these conduits is given an imperative, emphatic form to reflect the requirements for positivity and courage.

Functions in Relation to the Challenge

Using willpower and autonomy represented by the Monads in the Structural Hierarchy of Creativity in Work.

RG17: Be Fully Willing

Being Fully Willing requires that you maintain a readiness to do anything relevant and expect to encounter surprises and experience disappointments.
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RG16: Be Ever Purposeful

Being Ever Purposeful requires that you ensure that relevant values and goals are always present in whatever you think, say and do in relation to the challenge.
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RG15: Intensify Communication

Intensifying Communication requires that you refer to and describe aspects and issues more often and more carefully than usual, paying closer attention to the context, what others are telling you, and non-verbal messages.
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RG14: Intensify Experiences

Intensifying Experiences requires that you attend constantly to the flow of inner thoughts, feelings and images, and be ready to assign them greater value than usual and sharpen your focus to explore them.
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RG13: Target Change

Targeting Change requires that you determine what overall state of affairs counts as a definite stage towards meeting the challenge.
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RG12: Focus Inquiry

Focusing Inquiry requires that you seek relevant information and understanding in a suitable and discriminating way.
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RG11: Take Action

Taking Action requires that you promptly do whatever is needed to enable the higher uses of willpower.
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The above 7 Monads are the elemental energies of creativity, essential for challenges, and beneficial for endeavours generally, but especially in work.

Their greater significance lies in how these energies combine to form the more complex requirements of creativity. Before proceeding systematically through these combinations:

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  • Deepen the convictions that must carry you through—it's simple: just combine two adjacent uses of willpower.

Originally posted: 31-Jan-2012; Last updated: 10-Jul-2013.