Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 156
In this week’s show I shared a bunch of creative behaviors that you can integrate into your growing understanding of how you can be the most creative version of yourself you can be. Research has found that folks who intentionally bring creative behaviors and perspectives to their day live longer and more joyful lives—what’s a greater accomplishment than that?
I mentioned Imagining. I had never considered there could be various types of imagination and was fully captivated when I read about the Four Degrees of Imagination that George Romanes, a protege of Charles Darwin, offered back in 1884.
The first degree is when you see an object and can imagine qualities of that object you don’t actually perceive. For instance, you see an orange, you are too far from it to actually smell it, but you can imagine its scent.
The second degree is when you see an object and it reminds you of something else that isn’t present. You see a pond and its water triggers your imagination to think of the glass of wine you will have with dinner.
The third degree is when you imagine an object you’ve seen before without any stimulus from your environment.
The fourth degree is imagining something you have never experienced without any stimulus from your environment.
There is strong consensus that dogs experience the first two degrees of imagination and some canine experts find evidence that dogs experience the third degree as well.
Only humans experience all four.
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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