The Power of Imagination
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
My mind is so scattered. It is usually very hard for me to blog because I rarely think about one thing.
I find myself daydreaming about ridiculous ideas and alternate realities. This can be good and bad. Sometimes, it’s led to my having negative thoughts about things because I’ve over thought a scenario. Gladly that doesn’t happen anymore. I am always playing out different scenarios in my head and I ask myself a bunch of different questions everyday. I often find myself thinking if i were Superman, What would I be doing right now? What If I could walk through walls? What if I could speak all the languages in the world, what would that be like? How different would I be if I were white? What if I wasn’t born, how different would the world be? What if I were blind? If I am Larry Ellison, what would I be doing now?
I have always been like this for as long as I can remember. As a young boy, I was very into my imagination. I had action figures and played out fictional worlds. I actually didn’t stop doing this until quite late in life (lol).
You’d often find me in my room, with my action figures, pursuing some inter galactic adventure or coming up with cool inventions on paper. I have always been a “techy” (Stanford terminology for someone who is pursuing a technical major.. contrasted with a fuzzy, who is someone pursuing a liberal arts major), and so most of my imaginary world was usually sci-fi related (I tend to really like Science Fiction Movies and books as well) When I was younger, my friends and I talked about how cool it’d be to live in a computer world, where you could get plugged into a world without limitations, a world where things like gravity could be defied etc. In this world, you could have super human strength and run as fast as the speed of light. Later that year, the Matrix came out(.. a movie I have watched over 20 times and counting..) Before Loopt, my good friend Sam Alemayehu and I were working on a project to allow friends to locate one another using their cellphones..
Unfortunately on the flipside as I mentioned before, my imagination has also sometimes caused severe anxiety about some situations, but I have learned to control this aspect of my imagination.
Imagination is very important, when it comes to creativity. Imagination drives Creativity which in turn drives Innovation. To be an effective leader, one must be creative in the tackling problems of their respect fields.