Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 77
The most recent ‘Exploring your Creative Genius’ episode brought a number of creative ideas together and the topic of Imagination seemed to emerge as a thru line so let’s revisit the 4 Degrees of Imagination as proposed by George Romanes, a protege of Charles Darwin.
- You can see an orange but aren’t close enough to smell it yet you image you can. This is when your perception of an object causes you to imagine a quality of that object that isn’t present in the moment.
- You see a pond and water makes you think of wine and you imagine a wine glass. Something you can perceive reminds you of something you can’t and you visualize something new that isn’t present.
- You can imagine a familiar object without any prompts from the environment. I am now imagining a young woman reading this and wondering if I am talking to her.
- You intentionally imagine new items with the purpose of finding new combinations not previously experienced.
Romanes, an evolutionary biologist, believed many animal species are capable of the first three Degrees of Imagination but that only humans are capable of the fourth.
Now, imagine that.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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