We all know that having an imagination is a powerful gift. We’ve all had it, and often recall, or even chuckle, those days when we were younger and seemed to have ample reserves of it. Remember thinking you could actually fly like superman, or of unicorns in the forests?
Imagination is powerful, it allows us to see things we never thought possible. It breaks those anchors that tend to hold us down to our current reality and lets us think about what it could be, rather than what is.
However, until recently, I had not considered that imagination was a skill, as much as a gift. Meaning, that you can practice imagination and therefore, have more of it. In the recent episode of Hidden Brain, they focused on its power, but also in how this power can be used to help us conflate reality. Although, perhaps, it is those of us who have lost its skill through age, that may in fact be making too-strong an assertion between reality and its possibilities.
What do you think?
