Imagination
The best practices and methods for cultivating imagination.
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Imagination
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?
Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts
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DFM is imagination network
I don’t research when I write novels, because imagination is my asset, my gift.
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
Imagination is our gift as a species to move purposefully towards what does not yet exist and walk willingly through the unknown to get there. It has a power to change what seems possible and so to shift what becomes possible. Moral imagination looks inward as much as it acts outward. It works with a long sense of time and opens its eyes to... See more
Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project
We take the profound power of conjuring new expressions, interpretations, and constructed worlds for granted.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
“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