We can't always wait for a dream to give us a fresh insight; sometimes we are looking for new answers in the course of a day's work. There are many ways to stimulate our mind to think creatively, or to see things in new ways:
This is where imagination comes in. Set a snare for a new idea, by forming a vision, an ideal which is beyond reality today. Nurture it, build it, add to it, till you start to see the truth of it, the fact of it, the possibility of it. What you are doing is building your faith in the future.
"Faith is the certain knowledge of things desired......the assurance of things unseen."
Imagination is a builder of faith. Your faith will be rewarded with the realization of your path toward your goal. New images, new symbols will lead the way.
It's not hard to get new ideas. The problem is, our instinct is to reject them, because they don't feel night. They don't fit our existing mental models, so we have an uncomfortable feeling about them. They are also not practical right out of the box. We need to work with these ideas to find a practical answer. If we reject them too soon, we won't get a creative result.
Acceptance is the flip side of creativity.
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