Tags / 15 quotes from 7 sources
#imagination
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Vygotsky: imaginative play teaches self-control
Vygotsky was one of the few researchers of his era to study dramatic play in children. He predicted that the ability of the under-5 crowd to engage in imaginative activities was going to be a better gauge of academic success than any other activity—including quantitative and…
L'imperfetta meraviglia (Andrea De Carlo)
Le fantasie dei romanzi e delle canzoni
E lui, cosa diavolo vuole? Cosa va cercando? Insegue ancora le fantasie che si è ficcato in testa con i romanzi che divorava da ragazzino per sottrarsi a una vita reale con cui non voleva avere niente a che fare, e che poi hanno dato origine alle sue canzoni, le quali a loro…
Power Systems: Conversations On Global Democratic Uprisings And The New Challenges To U.s. Empire
Reading a book is an intellectual exercise
And reading a book doesn’t just mean turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Four uniquely human endowments
Within the freedom to choose are those endowments that make us uniquely human. In addition to self-awareness, we have imagination—the ability to create in our minds beyond our present reality. We have conscience—a deep inner awareness of right and wrong, of the principles that…
Rehearsing a proactive response
Identify an experience you might encounter in the near future where, based on past experience, you would probably behave reactively. Review the situation in the context of your Circle of Influence. How could you respond proactively? Take several moments and create the…
All things are created twice
“Begin with the end in mind” is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.
Taking charge of our own first creation
Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people’s agendas, of circumstances, or of past…
Imagination and conscience for personal leadership
our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives are imagination and conscience.
Ineffective scripts unworthy of us
In developing our own self-awareness many of us discover ineffective scripts, deeply embedded habits that are totally unworthy of us, totally incongruent with the things we really value in life. Habit 2 says we don’t have to live with those scripts. We are response-able to use…
Live out of imagination, not memory
Because I am self-aware, because I have imagination and conscience, I can examine my deepest values. I can realize that the script I’m living is not in harmony with those values, that my life is not the product of my own proactive design, but the result of the first creation I…
Peak performers are visualizers
Dr. Charles Garfield has done extensive research on peak performers, both in athletics and in business. He became fascinated with peak performance in his work with the NASA program, watching the astronauts rehearse everything on earth, again and again in a simulated environment…
Goals that grow out of our roles
After you identify your various roles, then you can think about the long-term goals you want to accomplish in each of those roles. We’re into the right brain again, using imagination, creativity, conscience, and inspiration. If these goals are the extension of a mission…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
We imagine the truth
Again, and even more derisively, the materialist stance would be that this is pure imagination. And again I wouldn’t contest this, so much as to reply that such so-called explanations merely beg the question. What is imagination? Surely that is the question. Why is it so…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
A culture with few magical objects
Now it is symptomatic of our rusty-beer-can type of sanity that our culture produces very few magical objects. Jewelry is slick and uninteresting. Architecture is almost totally bereft of exuberance, obsessed with erecting glass boxes. Children’s books are written by serious…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Make-believe play builds self-regulation
While much is known about the positive effects of make-believe play on children’s social, early literacy, and early mathematical development, research has shown that make-believe play also has positive effects on the development of self-regulation skills in young children…