Imagination
The best practices and methods for cultivating imagination.
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Imagination
What if we put our money, time and energy into what we say matters most? What if this school year celebrated imagination? In We Got This, Cornelius Minor reminds us that “education should function to change outcomes for whole communities.” What if we designed a school year that sought to radically shift how communities imagine, problem solve, heal,
... See moreSeth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
a particularly vivid form of future thinking: the imaginative construction or simulation of scenarios that might occur in one’s future. We hypothesized that the flexible use of episodic details from memory during imaginative simulations of the future can help to understand constructive aspects of memory, such as its susceptibility to distortion... See more
Daniel L. Schacter • Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
Research has shown a staggering number of health benefits associated with dispositional optimism, from improvements in cardiovascular health, to how quickly wounds heal, to slower disease progression.
What We Get Wrong About Manifesting
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
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?
A related line of enquiry is to determine not only whether the hippocampus is active during future simulation but whether it makes a critical and necessary contribution. While it has been long established that a functioning hippocampus is necessary for the retrieval of detailed autobiographical memories (for a review, see Moscovitch et al., 2005),... See more
Daniel L. Schacter • Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
In recent years, neuroimaging has provided evidence to suggest that imagining the future relies on much of the same neural machinery as remembering the past. One hypothesis that such findings motivate is that memories must be reactivated in order to extract the information needed to “flesh out” detailed simulations. Indeed, if simulations involve... See more