Einstein famously said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Consider for a moment what informed Einstein’s point of view. There’s a likely connection to a thought from Robert Mackay: “We can only create what we can imagine.”
Einstein’s perspective implies that imagination actually facilitates an expansion of knowledge. Broadly stated, learning is about understanding how to effectively address situations and what might be called “problems.”
These range from the most basic like how to read — all the way to how to address global warming. Imagination serves the cause of easing global warming by causing us to think creatively about solutions. The solutions to global warming are most likely to come from imagining what needs to be created to restore the health of the earth.
What role has an active imagination played in your life? Is imagination an aspect of you that you’d like to expand? How do you understand the connection between imagination and results?