The Art of Manliness

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The Imagination Muscle โ€” Where Good Ideas Come From (And How to Have More of Them)

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Published October 02, 2024 5:00am

Imagination is the ability to form mental images and concepts that don't exist or havenโ€™t happened yet, think outside of current realities, and form connections between existing ideas to create something new and original.

If the number of movie sequels and the outsized popularity of music made decades ago is any measure, our current age is suffering from a deficit in imagination. And indeed, tests show that creativity, which takes the possibilities generated in the mind and produces something with them, has been in decline for many years now โ€” a phenomenon that has repercussions for our pers...

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