Idea 89: Imaginative thinking
A man may prophesy,With a near aim, of the main chance of thingsAs yet not come to life, which in their seedsAnd weak beginnings, lie intreasured.
William Shakespeare, Henry IV
Imagination is our power to form images in our minds or to picture or conceive things that we cannot actually see and have not directly experienced.
Imagination is also linked to the higher creative faculty. Here it creates new forms of reality, giving shape to things unknown or new by recombining the products of past experience.
Creativity is about having new ideas and innovation is about turning them into improved or new products and services. Both creativity and innovation call for imaginative thinking.
It is imagination that is needed ...
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