Becoming a magician

Transforming Your Inner World

We also have strong personal narratives – those we tell ourselves about our lives and identity – maybe that we’re a failure and our lives have come to naught, or that we’re special enough that the limits that apply to others don’t apply to us, or that human beings are so fundamentally evil that anyone’s bold, imaginative thinking about a positive f

Although imagination is messy and fragmentary, I’ve found many patterns that we can make use of. I highlight that all novel inventions extend, invert or combine existing ideas; imagination is never a tabula rasa. Instead, our minds play with what’s around us, building on already familiar concepts, and we can choose to do this more systematically.