The Idea
Imagination is the basic ingredient of human life. You can imagine having a drink of wine at the end of a hard day; how a conversation with a colleague might go, how an important sales meeting will pan out. You create scenarios in your mind, for example, about a performance appraisal in the near future or about where your career might be going in 3 years’ time. Imagination is an inner quality of our minds, but it is also a social activity. We can share our hopes, fears, and visions with others and by making those visions vivid we construct future realities together. Empathy is the special form of imagination that involves thinking about how things look and feel from another person’s position. We cannot avoid ...
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