Imagination
The best practices and methods for cultivating imagination.
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Imagination
i think maybe a useful tool for working is; whenever i start believing things are impossible, i am simply tired and need rest. i can begin again when i have the energy to believe in possibilities. i am not a negative person, i am just exhausted.
there is something quite rebellious and empowering about using your own mind to create other realities.
Rodrigo Turra from The Nexialist • 🪈✨The Nexialist #0176
My first responsibility at Hermes is really to accompany all the creative studios to produce collections for Hermes season after season. However, in order to that, I need to keep my mind open and I need to somehow... foresee what is about to come, I need to dream.
So dreaming is an essential part of my work. But my first responsibility is to work... See more
So dreaming is an essential part of my work. But my first responsibility is to work... See more
Kevin Gee • Letter #210: Pierre-Alexis Dumas (2019)
Principles to return to.
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?
I don’t research when I write novels, because imagination is my asset, my gift.
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
“worry is a misuse of imagination”
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