"Imagination makes you see all sorts of things."
1887 - 1986
Imagination is essential and necessary for the creative leader — writers, artists, poets, storytellers, musicians. And in my experience we have very little control over it. It appears when it wants to. Have you ever struggled with a problem and could not find the answer and suddenly it appeared out of nowhere. A few weeks ago, I was struggling with a project and during my morning walk at 5 am, the answer popped into my head. Take good care of your imagination. Encourage it. Feed it. Stretch it. Trust it. And believe in it. Imagination is one of the best gifts that you have been given.
Do you know what it means to feed your imagination? Give it large doses of information. The creative mind needs information to be able to connect the dots between the strange and the obscure. Read books on all kinds of topics. Listen to people tell their stories. Observe and study nature.
