Sunday, May 15, 2011

How the essential topics of creativity, knowledge and imagination relate.

I believe that the relationship between imagination and knowledge begins with instinct and ends with wisdom. My understanding on how these essential topics relate is that it all begins with an instinct one's natural way of going about things. This instinct leads to intuition which is very similar to one's instinctual responses to things, the intuition is an instinctual feeling about something whether it be an event or a certain situation. Intuition leads to feeling certain emotions, such as fear or anxiety. Emotion derives from creativity and understanding, in order for one to recognize what one feels one must first understand the emotion, and from there one can use creativity to channel that emotion into more useful outlets of expression such as art. Creativity derives from imagination and understanding comes from knowledge. In order for one to be creative one must have imagination, imagination enables a person to think outside the normal and look into different form of expression as well as different ways to gain knowledge. In order for one to truly understand something one must have previous knowledge of that certain topic. All these elements combined create the element of wisdom, wisdom is reached when one is able to combine the elements of imagination and knowledge flawlessly in everyday life.  



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