Omission biases and imagination deficits
y creatively changing the world, I mean that a person must be revealing and expanding on some new facets of the world – so just reaching the top of your banking career and creating high-scale impact in something that was utterly predictable (for example, you closed a multi-billion dollar acquisition for amazon and an existing retail giant in a deve... See more
Pipeline or Catalyst? The Dual Paths of Elite Education
What do these troubling statistics and that ‘tangled mix of economic, social and emotional problems’ have to do with imagination? Absolutely nothing if you look at our current political and cultural priorities. But absolutely everything if you look at how the brain works, how the best conditions for the imagination can be cultivated, if you’re inte
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
It’s better to prefer incompleteness over completeness; capacious imagination instead of futures that are too specific or neat; and experimentation and exploration over visions and blueprints. I’m sceptical of overly coherent utopias or the belief that societies follow simple logics. Instead, I see the work of imagination (and the life of real soci
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