To keep themselves entertained, they watched numerous films and reenacted the scenes they saw. Fourteen years of being cooped up in a tiny space would be enough to drive most of us crazy, but the Angulo brothers used their imagination to stay sane, and eventually escape. Imagination is a powerful tool that is inherent in each of us.
Use it to shape your reality and boost your knowledge. Bowen is a fitness and health blogger at Running Addicted. His obsessions are food and running, and he strives for a balance between the two. He blogs to share his stories, his training, what he has learned to help his readers be a better runner. Here are five reasons why imagination is more important than knowledge 1.
Imagination Creates Knowledge Books about the Law of Attraction teach us that what we focus on expands. Imagination Makes Life Interesting What would life be without music, movies, books, and the arts?
Imagination Births Innovation Without imagination, would we have cars, airplanes, computers, smartphones, or buildings today? Steve Jobs would tell Steve Wozniak that its name would be Apple. In his own words: "I like apples a lot Apple is ahead of Atari in the phone book and I used to work at Atari!
We found the juxtaposition of something that seemed to epitomise what we were going after, which was simplicity and yet very refined sophistication. The apple seemed to symbolise that. On a different plain, the harmony of nature and the vastness of the universe around us have been a constant source of inspiration to the greatest scientific minds. From the foundations laid by Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity, to quantum mechanics and the evolution of superstring theory, the passion of humankind to understand its origins has never ceased.
When ideas fuel inspiration, the in-between state that leads to action is imagination. We crossed the oceans to discover new lands, invented the means to travel the world, reached for the stars and landed on the moon. All that started as an idea first held in the minds of imagination. Imagination is the highest freedom of all and the one that no one can deprive us of.
The greatness of creative imagination is praised not only by the romantics and artists of this world, but the brightest of scientific brains. Einstein famously said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Nikola Tesla, one of history's most fascinating innovators and a futurist, was a man of legendary imaginative power. Tesla had an eidetic memory that enabled him to precisely recall images, visualise objects and literally work out his inventions in his imagination. Once he was inspired by an idea, he would start building it up in his imagination to the point of first operating an invention in his brain as if it were real, before proceeding to its concrete form.
An idea is the beginning of everything, but the ingredients in the capsule of success are perception, skills, consciousness, focus, persistence, and belief. There is no imagination without knowledge, and there is no knowledge without imagination. Putting information in a human memory is not similar to data storage, as you have to sort through, transform it into the knowledge, and abstract the insight or recreate the new knowledge at the advanced level.
Creativity is part imagination and part knowledge: Though creative imagination is more intuitive than intellectual-it has capacities of intelligent and imaginative associations and applications of ideas and information bits with diverse functionality and approaches. In fact, during creative moments, one may need to have the capacity to freeroll based on unconscious and rather unbridled mind activity; while knowledge brings back so often to rationalism and concrete thinking and reasoning.
Imagination is the seed to grow innovation. Imagination leads to discovery. Discovery is both an event and a process. Knowledge is fundamental. But without the imagination to "believe in the possible," innovation may not happen. Sometimes it is not possible to "see" the facts because they exist in different planes. And until you deal with facts from different sources that relate essentially to the same matter, the patterns are not apparent. To put the other way, innovation starts with an idea.
Imagination can be seen as helping one expand the initial idea and building a set of hypothesis about how the product of the idea will look like, and how the customers will react to the product. But will things actually happen as we have imagined? Not certainly We need knowledge of the various engineering domain related to our product, and knowledge of our customers' actual needs and behavior in order to validate the hypothesis about the outcome of our innovation.
Knowledge is path-dependent. This means that to discover an opportunity, you should have previous knowledge in the field to be able to get recognized. Imagination is also needed to be able to apply this previous knowledge to a different context. Knowledge doesn't necessarily mean to be an expert in a field, but to have some experience on this.
It is also true that if you have too much knowledge on a topic, you will be bounded by this knowledge, hampering being more imaginative about other things. While imagination helps us expand our idea, knowledge helps us refine our idea to what is economically feasible. An entrepreneur may not have all the domain knowledge that required transforming an idea into a product, but he or she needs to be able to coordinate the resources from the different knowledge domain required to transform the idea into a product and market.
Is imagination the key that transforms knowledge from folly to wisdom? As with so many human behaviors, there is a gradient at which there is a threshold or tipping point where thought materializes into action.
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