Today we’ll cover the fourteenth key, Cultivate Creative Vision. Imagination is our window to creativity. Most of us have lost the ability to dream, to imagine creatively. But, it is our right and privilege to dream and create.
Hill describes two types of imagination. The first is Synthetic Imagination which takes known facts, ideas, concepts and rearranges, adds, subtracts or otherwise reorders them to create something new, better, or longer lasting. This might be taking what is known currently about a project, determining the flaws, adversity, drawbacks, seeing what needs fixing, tweeking, adjustment, or reworking, and figuring out how to do that. Usually this involves teamwork to solve the problem, develop a solution, and bring it into fruition. We see this often, Edison and the lightbulb; Kennedy and the moon; Wright Brothers and flight.
The second is Creative Imagination which is based in the subconscious. These are flashes of inspiration, seeing a problem and looking at it upside-down to create something new. Sometimes called divine inspiration, these ideas are observations, faith and intuition in action. Many of these abound around us as Woolworth and the five-and-dime idea.
“Imagination recognizes limitations, handicaps, and opposition; creative vision rides over these as if they did not exist, for it has its base in Infinite Intelligence.” Creative imagination is the key to new ideas for old problems, for radical and revolutionary thinking. Hill offers several solutions to stimulate your creative imagination in this chapter. We each have the capacity and ability. We don’t all access our powers.
For a time, a day, a week, a month, try an experiment. Maybe sit in a quiet place for a determined amount of time each day and focus on one issue, one problem. Even better if it is a darkened room. Have a pen and paper handy, and just jot down everything that comes to mind. It might be a solution to something you weren’t consciously thinking about, or ideas about your focus point.
This content is in Napoleon Hill’s book, Keys To Success. But just reading it, although very helpful, is not enough. You must study it, practice it and discuss it.
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Judy Stepp
Life Transformation Results Coach
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