Imagination
Questions
1. Do you have a very active imagination?
2. How often do you daydream?
3. Do you have a favorite dream?
4. Do you think children have more imagination than adults? Why?
5. Why do we have imagination? Is it useful?
6. Have you ever had a great idea for a movie?
7. Can you imagine what the world will be like in 100 years?
8. How different would the world be if the wheel wasn’t invented?
Videos
Imagine you’re a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates — but each choice comes with a fearful consequence too. How do you choose?
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In telling the story of the whaleship Essex, novelist Karen Thompson Walker shows how fear propels imagination, as it forces us to imagine the possible futures and how to cope with them.
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Category: Psychology