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In my childhood days, I love to watch the full length cartoons, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White to name a few. As an adult now, I have not grown tired at all watching these same cartoons. They make me feel so alive, waking the dreamer in me. Walt Disney is a name in popular entertainment that needs no introduction. As a creative innovator in the cartoon industry, he has revolutionized the world through animation.
When we talk about Disneyland, any one, child and adult cannot help but feel excited about it. It is a place where one can be just oneself and release the child in us. It is a place of happiness. Even the thought of it can already make one feel inspired and believe that anything is possible. So how did Walt Disney create this magical land which gave memorable experience to both young and old?
Walt Disney loves to fiddle with new things and see how far their capabilities could be stretched. And then he would enhance it to produce something superior than the previous. When drumming up ideas, he employed a creative process known as Dreamer-Realist-Critic (DRC). 
This is how he approached his ideas in three distinct phases…
Dreamer
Day one, he would spend all day fantasizing, coming up with the most fantastic, absurd ideas he could.
Realist
The next day, he would play the realist and try to imagineer these ideas back to earth.
Critic
The third day he would become the critic, and try to punch holes in all the ideas he had come up with.
The ideas that survived this process were the ones Walt would work on.
It is important to don the three persona for goal achievements. Each persona involves a certain thinking and action. You might be stronger in one or two persona and weaker in the other. With self-awareness to recognize this, you can commit to cultivate and strengthen the skills for each persona. And seek to integrate and find a balance between them.
Before launching any one idea, you can start by imagining yourself, one at a time, as the three different persona to rip apart and assess the idea you want to work on. Move back and forth with the persona until you are fully satisfied that the idea is congruently covered on all areas and is ready for fruition.
Each persona had a specific function in the creative process, and only together did it become “Disney magic.”
In moving about with each persona, you could reflect on some questions.
1) DREAMER – purpose is to employ creative imagination in a free and uninhibited manner
What is possible?
What do I want to create?
What is the outcome I want to achieve?
What would inspire and excite me?
How would the creation make me feel?
Why is it important to me?
What is the purpose?
Suppose money was no object what would I do?
Suppose I have all the time, what would I enjoy doing?
2) REALIST – purpose is to connect vision to practical action
What do I have at present? Talent, abilities, knowledge?
What resources do I need?
How can I make it happen?
What are the ways to fund it?
What is the plan?
Who are my collaborators?
How will I know if the goal has been achieved?
What skills and beliefs would help?
How would I enroll people?
What is the first practical step?
3) CRITIC – purpose is to critique positively and constructively and refine the idea
What would make it better?
What are the drawbacks of this plan?
How will others respond to it?
What are the possible problems?
How will I conquer them?
What is missing?
Will it achieve what I set out to achieve?
How possible is this within the time frame?
By employing this DRC approach, you can successfully achieve any goal and create a life that can withstand any storm and yet honors your authentic self.
