Blog post 'Use your imagination'
Use your imagination
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If I was to start on about how imagination is important, I'd probably lose your interest. We all suspect the importance of imagination, but few of us really internalise this value to make it part of our response pattern. Possibly because we don't understand what it really is.
Imagination is probably the product of someone accessing their subconscious ideas pool from their conscious mind. Our brains are ideas mashup machines. If it can be said that we produce anything original, it can only be the way we've rearranged past experiences. But this is a powerful thing. Your ability to construct arragements is really a measure of your intelligence. Memory (past experience) is not enough.
Some of use have the ability to respond to powerful stimuli with a creative arrangement of ideas on how to respond. We're not all wired this way, but I believe it can be practised. All you have to do is choose to think about things rather than simply accept external ideas and be content with an experience.
There's a lot of truth in the assertion that we [the majority of us] are "creatures of habit". That is to say we are limited to our current and past experiences, cut off from original ideas [which our subconscious minds are rich in] to respond to situations. Part of the reason for this could be that we don't see things as a whole so we are not situationally aware. For instance, eating a hamburger that is bad for you is experientially more satisfying than staying hungry until you get home and prepare a nutritious meal. It doesn't see the whole truth, it only sees the immediate truth of the current experience. Waiting until you get home and eating well is seeing the whole truth and then responding lucidly to it.
In life we are called on to argue our case as to why we have made certain choices. Some people fear the vista of the whole truth because they suspect deep down that it will convict them of error. Because we have been conditioned to fear conviction, we dread the experience of it. Rather we will construct arguments to support our past choices. So here's something to ask yourself next time you find yourself doing this, is it based on past memories? or is it based on original thought (indeas/intelligence). Leonardo DeVinci once said
"Anyone who conducts and argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory".
You are your own authority because your choices are in your hands. If you want the ability to respond lucidly to your current situation, then you need to not rely on experience, but on original thought for how to respond.
Use your imagination.
Imagination is probably the product of someone accessing their subconscious ideas pool from their conscious mind. Our brains are ideas mashup machines. If it can be said that we produce anything original, it can only be the way we've rearranged past experiences. But this is a powerful thing. Your ability to construct arragements is really a measure of your intelligence. Memory (past experience) is not enough.
Some of use have the ability to respond to powerful stimuli with a creative arrangement of ideas on how to respond. We're not all wired this way, but I believe it can be practised. All you have to do is choose to think about things rather than simply accept external ideas and be content with an experience.
There's a lot of truth in the assertion that we [the majority of us] are "creatures of habit". That is to say we are limited to our current and past experiences, cut off from original ideas [which our subconscious minds are rich in] to respond to situations. Part of the reason for this could be that we don't see things as a whole so we are not situationally aware. For instance, eating a hamburger that is bad for you is experientially more satisfying than staying hungry until you get home and prepare a nutritious meal. It doesn't see the whole truth, it only sees the immediate truth of the current experience. Waiting until you get home and eating well is seeing the whole truth and then responding lucidly to it.
In life we are called on to argue our case as to why we have made certain choices. Some people fear the vista of the whole truth because they suspect deep down that it will convict them of error. Because we have been conditioned to fear conviction, we dread the experience of it. Rather we will construct arguments to support our past choices. So here's something to ask yourself next time you find yourself doing this, is it based on past memories? or is it based on original thought (indeas/intelligence). Leonardo DeVinci once said
"Anyone who conducts and argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory".
You are your own authority because your choices are in your hands. If you want the ability to respond lucidly to your current situation, then you need to not rely on experience, but on original thought for how to respond.
Use your imagination.
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