Imagination as a mind process, requires an ignition switch to start it, to push it to it's full capacity of producing and developing creative ideas that shape reality. Creative ideas lead to innovation.
It's innovation that transforms businesses and lives. Imagination is a machine like cycle of ideas, evolving around transformation caused by competition. The key way to overcome competition is being unique by innovating and coming up with new solutions.
The mind as the cognitive faculty of the brain has potential to make dreams through ideas. Resources like books, educational videos, and seminars , play and games, enrich the mind with mind triggering views that make a shift in perception to transform our works and businesses.
'The Imagination Machine' is the book written by Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller. This book gives deep ways of discovering new ideas, and how to use those ideas to turn things around in our lives and businesses. Also, to bring a better understanding of the processes required to reach the goals we heartly need.
In summary, the writers recommend six ways of evoking imagination and using it as a tool to make ourselves organized.
1. The Seduction: How to open yourself up to surprises. Things like accidents, anomalies and analogies may ignite imagination. We need to get ready for any impact from the things we don't expect or barely know. Anomalies have the potential to become opportunities.
2. The Idea: How to generate new ideas. We need to study and interpret the meaning from the impacting trends so that we don't miss important life opportunities.
3. The Collision: How to rethink your idea based on real-world feedback. Relate the ideas to the changing situation.
4. The Epidemic: How to spread an evolving idea to others. Make the idea known by practice and developing and improving skills.
5. The New Ordinary: How to turn your novel idea into an accepted reality. Immerse in the new world view with new or improved perception and skill.
6. The Encore: How to repeat the process--again and again. Do it again, paying attention to the frustrations of the ever changing landscape.
Imagination is one of the barely understood but most important elements of success. To thrive in this world in anything, We need to reimagine our businesses and lives by involving ourselves in games and play to spark and widen our thinking, so that we come up with new ideas possible for the solutions we need.
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