Imagination leads to creativity.

Someone did say: A picture is worth a thousand words. And there is so much truth in that.

Have you ever ask for directions and found the description of the route so difficult and confusing? Who is not good at words? Is it him? Or is it you? Who could not picture the route clearly? Again, is it him or is it you?

How can a person who cannot picture a route clearly in his mind, describe it well to you? It could be the other way around. Without a good imagination, how can anyone imagine the junctions or roundabouts with their turning into another street. How does anyone picture the landmarks that are described along the route?

Well, nothing good or great can be done without some imagination. A town-planner needs imagination. So does every man or woman, some more, some less.

Even a simple job of painting the floor needs imagination, otherwise, just as in the cartoon I saw sometime ago, a painter started work at the door and painted himself into a corner, trapped by his own wet paint.

Only when a person sees through his/her imagination, can he picture what he hopes to achieve. Only when he/she sees a solution to a problem can he solve it. How can anyone see a solution without some imagination? How can anyone draw a good design without visualising it in his mind? Without imagination, how can there be creation? How can there be success for your child without first imagining how it can be done?

As you can see, imagination and creativity are very necessary factors in the success of any individual, be it at school or in a job.

And creativity certainly needs imagination. To create something we need an idea. You need to picture the thing you wish to create. With that picture, you can imagine how it could be used. What practical purposes does it have. Only when you are able to picture that which is in your mind, can you think of the materials and tools you need to construct what is pictured.

So it is important that we stimulate imagination in our children as well as in ourselves.

The question that arises is: How do we do that?
So my next posting will be stimulating imagination and creativity.