Reinvention Carousel • Unlearn and Relearn Identity and Creativity

Ever feel like you're on a success / failure roller coaster? 🎢

Ever feel stuck on a fear / suffering merry-go-round? 🎠

Whether you're tweaking a tiny creative process or reinventing an entirely new identity / brand / career, you will face challenges. It's fact. Just because we have an adult body with a driver's license doesn't mean we won't struggle with learning and, most of all, unlearning. ⤵︎

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Stage 1 • Unconscious Incompetence

We don't know that we don't know. We're not aware of our shadows or shortcomings. That's why ignorance is bliss.

Stage 2 • Conscious Incompetence

We become painfully aware of our shadows or shortcomings. "I suck at this!" (guilt) or "I suck!" (shame) are the general state of mind, along with discomfort rashes and anxiety/depression roller coaster.

Stage 3 • Conscious Competence

We gain an awareness of our achievement and growth, with a "Look ma, no hands!" type of satisfaction. The worst is over, phew. New learning may not be second nature yet, but we got this!

Stage 4 • Unconscious Competence

We integrated the learning and practice deep into our bones. We just know. We just are... to the point of forgetting and being blind to your genius and superpowers. "Doesn't everybody?!?" is the general frame of mind. No, millions even billions of people don't have the skill of empathy, insight, courage, creativity, etc. They need us to transmit our competence.

Theory vs. Reality

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Hard, Harder, Hardest Hurdles

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It’s hard smashing up against a brick wall, again and again, as you rise in consciousness and learn how to learn.

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It's even harder to arrive at Stage 2 and be aware that you suck at what you're trying to learn. Facing the barrage of shame, guilt, grief, anxiety and/or depression as you crawl to competency is not for the faint at heart.

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The hardest hurdle is unlearning, making (Stage 4) who you are, talents plus warts and all, conscious to yourself again. It takes a spiritual warrior to shed maladaptive conditioning and relearn soul-lead ways of being.

4 Types of Knowing

Here are the 4 Stages of Adult Un/Relearning in relation to the 4 Types of Knowing.

	Mind-knowing	Heart-knowing	Body-knowing	Soul-knowing
Stage 1	--	--	👣	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Stage 2	🧠🧠🧠	💖	👣	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Stage 3	🧠🧠	💖💖	👣👣👣	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Stage 4	🧠	💖💖💖	👣👣👣👣	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Stage 1 • Unconscious Incompetence

The soul always knows, but in stage 1 the mind and heart don't yet know that the soul knows. The body knows a little but cannot articulate it yet without mind and heart knowing.

Stage 2 • Conscious Incompetence

Mind-knowing comes sharply online and heart-knowing (aka emotional intelligence) awakens.

Stage 3 • Conscious Competence

Learning plus practice turns mind-knowing into higher body-knowing, as heart-knowing continues to flourish.

Stage 4 • Unconscious Competence

All knowing lives in the body, with greater heart-knowing. But the mind begins to "forget" what the soul/body/heart know.

Re-defining Branding, masterclass and Masterpiece

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Branding is seeing and making your identity conscious to yourself again.

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A masterclass is seeing and making your wisdom conscious to yourself again, plus transmitting that wisdom.

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A masterpiece, your life's work, is seeing and making your wisdom plus your wounds conscious to yourself again, plus transmitting that integrated wisdom. You can't do it all simultaneously, but you can do it one nano-reinvention after another sequentially.

The Reinvention Carousel Options

REINVENTION = Unlearning + Relearning + Reclaiming all that was lost + Rebuilding new ways of being/doing

Reinventing a creative process, identity, brand, business, career or lifestyle? Here are 16 options on the Reinvention Carousel, each with high or low levels of success, suffering, joy and fear. Which option will you choose? ⤵︎

Option 1 • Prep Leap

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Prepare, train, then take a running leap. Yes, there will be fear before and during, but weeeeee oh so fun! Consciously choosing this option minimizes suffering and sets up a successful landing.