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A crash course in changing the world.
The secret of Imagination ^___^
"think like a child – children have no limit to their thinking"
I pick this secret because I see children as the emblem of Imagination, which according to me is the most important tool for any kind of change.
As we grow old, except for particular job-fields and art (and often not even these are excepted), living in this society demands lesser and lesser imagination.
Beginning with schools, that from a certain class on suddenly stop asking students for imagination efforts, and then it's even worse when school brings you to the work-world. Rationality becomes the first requirement: to deal with money, job, house, family and arrive safe at the end of the month and ready for the next month starting. Imagination is relegated to entertainment filling the free time, in a way it tragically becomes a passive experience. And when it is still active, its action is mostly to escape reality.
In my definition of imagination I write these statements:
Imagination is the ability to see and/or create connections between things that are not already connected.
Imagination is the ability to understand and so to accept ideas that show or create those connections.
Imagination is the ability to trust the 'new' and so the 'change'.
Imagination is the ability to analyze existing connections, to compare them to the desired/imagined ones, and so to draw distinctions, and so to judge the existing connections.
Imagination is the ability to generate alternatives.
Imagination is the ability to design a new society.
That's why Imagination is my favorite secret for social innovation, and to change the world. =)
"Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage."
- Barack Obama Sworn In as 44th President of United States (January 21, 2009)
Let's keep on imagining, let's change the world!
Thank you,
^____^
I pick this secret because I see children as the emblem of Imagination, which according to me is the most important tool for any kind of change.
As we grow old, except for particular job-fields and art (and often not even these are excepted), living in this society demands lesser and lesser imagination.
Beginning with schools, that from a certain class on suddenly stop asking students for imagination efforts, and then it's even worse when school brings you to the work-world. Rationality becomes the first requirement: to deal with money, job, house, family and arrive safe at the end of the month and ready for the next month starting. Imagination is relegated to entertainment filling the free time, in a way it tragically becomes a passive experience. And when it is still active, its action is mostly to escape reality.
In my definition of imagination I write these statements:
Imagination is the ability to see and/or create connections between things that are not already connected.
Imagination is the ability to understand and so to accept ideas that show or create those connections.
Imagination is the ability to trust the 'new' and so the 'change'.
Imagination is the ability to analyze existing connections, to compare them to the desired/imagined ones, and so to draw distinctions, and so to judge the existing connections.
Imagination is the ability to generate alternatives.
Imagination is the ability to design a new society.
That's why Imagination is my favorite secret for social innovation, and to change the world. =)
"Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage."
- Barack Obama Sworn In as 44th President of United States (January 21, 2009)
Let's keep on imagining, let's change the world!
Thank you,
^____^
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Comment by Michele Baron on May 26, 2010 at 9:27pm
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interesting writing. thank you
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Comment by ob1 on May 26, 2010 at 9:39pm
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^____^ this is the basis of the research I started some time ago, the aim of which is to develop a teaching tool that uses imagination and "stories" as means for analyze and change the parts of current society that are not desirable.
Again, thank YOU Michele for giving your time and attention to my words and thoughts.
I desire your imagination to bring you happiness and to help you being a great change maker.
=)
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Comment by Isidor Cardenas on April 23, 2011 at 1:03pm
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wow we chose the same quote!
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