Monday, March 3, 2008

Imagine: The willing suspension of belief

This week I promise to get you thinking as well as entertain you. The willing suspension of belief is necessary for analysts if they are to perceive new possibilities. Isn't that what we are looking for? Change? Growth? New ways to be of value?

Meanwhile, until that happens, here is some food for thought via a shareware powerpoint and two youtube videos. While there is no pure imagination nor pixie dust in the world of analysis, what is needed is the belief in the value of imagination and the suspension of belief in the obstacles to applied imagination in the real world.

"Imagination is the ability to form mental images, or the ability to spontaneously generate images within one's own mind. It helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world, and it also plays a key role in the learning process. A basic training for imagination is the listening to storytelling (narrative), in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to 'evoke worlds'" -Wikipedia





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