To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination. Cynthia Ozick
We all have it, its just that we seldom use it.
We go about our day following the usual routine and rarely fire-up our imaginations to plan or develop something well out of our usual schedule.
Steve Joordens, a cognitive psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto, puts it this way – Its only a small percentage of our lives that we spend consciously considering things. We may go through 80 percent of our life without much conscious thought of what we are thinking and doing.
Professor Joordens, points out that when youre involved with your usual daily tasks, any effort to awaken your imagination for some creative purpose is effortful and easily disruptable. In order to get to the creative thing you have to expend an effort. A lot of people dont tend to make those efforts.
For those however, who find the time and make the effort to ignite the power of imagination find the experience can be energizing and often leads to a successful conclusion of an creative idea.
In an article on the power of imagination, Andrew Chung writes Many of the...