Imagination
The best practices and methods for cultivating imagination.
aron and
Imagination
realisation.
We are asked to realise in three ways: as insight (get real) as self (become real) and as manifestation (make real). To realise what’s happening, who we are, and what we should do, we need to unlearn some things and reimagine others.
https://perspecteeva.substack.com/p/falling-in-love-with-the-discomfort
When the mind searches for the future, it sees the past.
Sohail Inayatullah • Foresight in Challenging Environments * Journal of Futures Studies
Particularly relevant to the idea of episodic simulation is the process of forming “implementation intentions” (Gollwitzer, 1999) which involve imagining and rehearsing a plan with reference to the specific future context in which it will be executed. Research has shown that creating implementation intentions significantly increases the likelihood... See more
Daniel L. Schacter • Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
“The imagination creates the future,” writes Lewis Hyde, professor and author of the book The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World .1
walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions — by their very existence as ideas — function causally to bring about their own reality.
Cultivating Hyperstitions
There is indirect evidence to support this idea. For instance, individuals tend to act in a way that is consistent with or constrained by how they have imagined themselves in those situations (Johnson and Sherman, 1990), implying that some record of that simulation influences later behavior. There is typically a high correspondence of stated... See more
Daniel L. Schacter • Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
When you apply possibility thinkingin your daily life, it can give you a powerful sense of agency. It can help you find innovative solutions to actually do what you want to do, in one form or another.
Constance de Saint Laurent • How to use ‘possibility thinking’ | Psyche Guides
The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic
Sam Pyrah • The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic
Imagining is a rigorous discipline. Imagination is our greatest national resource, one that drives value creation across the sciences, the humanities, the arts, and business. All compelling entrepreneurial ventures, transformative social movements, and technological breakthroughs begin with an inspired sense of possibility.