Origin: Fire

So all of humanity should be thankful: fire.

Because of fire, our human ancestors were able to come to this point. Without fire, we would not be what we are today. It is fire that makes us humans the higher intelligent beings on Earth. Whether there are any more intelligent and powerful creatures in the ocean than us, we don't know yet. It can only wait for you and me to explore, discover and study all the unsolved mysteries.

Other claims

In order to preserve the water source, ancient humans in Africa used ostrich eggshells to fill water, thinking about future life, and their imagination burst out.

appraise

Imagination is the source of human innovation.

The charm of imagination is that it can transport you into a virtual world and realize dreams that are impossible in real life.

The role of imagination is that it can make you happy, to be amazed, to be free, to enjoy feelings that are rarely found in real life.

Explained in English

Imagination in English:

1.fancy

(Usually used)

deality

Key features:

Description

In creative imagination, you use your imagination to create a clear image of something you wish to achieve, and then you continue to focus your attention on the thought or image, giving it an affirmative energy until it finally becomes an objective reality. The greatness of imagination is the fundamental reason why we humans are superior to other species. Because of imagination, we can create inventions and discover new theorems of things. Without imagination, we humans would not have any development and progress. Einstein was able to discover the theory of relativity because he was able to maintain his childlike imagination at all times. Newton was able to land on the ground from an apple, and imagined that gravity, a major scientific discovery, was made because of imagination.

Scientific inference

According to modern science, the earliest imagination of human beings originated from fire, and our ancestors used to live the same life as animals, and the food was eaten raw. A flash of lightning caused a forest fire that killed many animals, some of our ancestors ran out, and some of them burned to death in the forest. Because they were so hungry, they had to eat the dead animals that had been cooked. It is found that it is delicious, and cooked food allows the human body to absorb nutrients better, and on the other hand, the parasites in the animal body are also killed by the action of fire, thus reducing the occurrence of human diseases. The absorption of food leads to an increase in the amount of the brain, and when you look at the dancing flames, you start to imagine how to keep the fire down, how to use the fire for warmth, and how to use the fire. You can start imagining a lot of things, and gradually you can create words, language, and technology through your imagination, and invent some new things. Fire has burned food to increase human physical strength, and all other animals are very afraid of fire, and we use fire to defeat many animals. With the increase in ability, he began to be very interested in the unknown, and began to explore the road.

prerequisite

First of all, it is necessary to accumulate a wealth of knowledge and survival experience; secondly, to maintain and develop your own curiosity; Thirdly, we should be good at capturing the products of creative imagination and creative thinking, and process them to turn them into valuable results. Also, if you want to use your imagination, then you look at the world like a child. The second is to focus your energy on your imagination, so that your imagination will be used well.

How to improve

It is very necessary to improve the imagination, it will manifest itself in all aspects of life, and even related to success! The most basic thing is definitely to see more and think more, but there are still higher requirements. Imagination is an indispensable kind of human intelligence, and it is an indispensable wisdom in human life. The philosopher Diderot said, "Imagination is a quality. Without it, one can be neither a poet nor a philosopher, a thinking man, a rational being, a real man. ”

Not long ago, a survey of 21 countries around the world conducted by the International Assessment of Educational Progress showed that Chinese children ranked first in the world in numeracy, but first in imagination and fifth in creativity. At the same time, the results of a survey by an authoritative consulting agency in the United States show that when children are 1 year old, their imagination and creativity are as high as 96%, but this situation is reversed after they go to school at the age of 7. By the age of 10, only 4% of a child's rich imagination and creativity remain.

In order to maintain children's rich imagination, parents should consciously train their children from the small things in life from an early age.

1. Let the child be the master of life, and move his hands and feet. Each nerve in the hands and feet is connected to the brain and is innervated by the brain, and the different movements of the hands and feet can promote the development of the brain. Studies have shown that hands-on children are more creative and imaginative. In life, let the child's affairs be done by himself, and parents should not take it upon themselves to save time for their children to study and write homework, and to take care of the housework that should be done by the children themselves. Let him clean up his stationery, bed, bedroom, wash his socks, underwear, carry his school bag, etc. You know, when children are doing things, their brains are also moving.

When the child is able to hold the spoon in his hand, he is trained to eat independently, and the adult does not feed him anymore; Let him enjoy walking, running, knowing the way, remembering the way, adventuring to take a new path, even if you have a car, don't let the four wheels become the child's "legs"; Let him have access to all kinds of adult tools, such as the toolbox at home, pliers, screwdrivers, wrenches, hammers, scissors, etc. The screws of the chair are loose, try to get the four or five-year-old to tighten it; assemble small furniture, let him try it on his own; When you need to boil water, let your child try turning on the gas stove.

2. Let your child experience as many sensations as possible. Children live more in the world of vision every day, lacking experience and exercise of other senses, and the senses of touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste, inspiration are equally important for imagination and creativity. It is a good idea to let your child wear an eye patch and rely on his senses of hearing and touch to sense the world. Listening to a story with your eyes closed will definitely have a different feeling than listening to it with your eyes open.

Music can stimulate a child's imagination, especially music without lyrics. You can talk to your child about what they heard and felt, whether it was the sound of birds or the storm. Is it a space walk, or is it time travel? This is an exercise for children's auditory imagination.

Picture books are now so colorful that they are dizzying. But children mostly passively "see" and rarely think. You can ask your child to think about how the picture would be different if he were asked to draw it. What image will be added and what color will be changed?

3. Frequently play with your child to expand their imagination. It can be developed by a specific object in life. For example, what can I do with a bottle after drinking? Can it be kicked as a ball? Can you make a rolling pin? Will the words shrink or get bigger when you look through a glass bottle?

You can also let children make more assumptions, expand associations and imaginations. For example, if I were a seed, how would it germinate? How will it sprout? What does it look like after germination? Can you draw it with a limb comparison?

In their spare time, parents may wish to have a "bragging" competition with their children, such as "big mouth - the upper lip is connected to the sky, and the lower lip is on the ground"; You can also discuss or use exaggerated idioms, such as "bold and bold" – how can this day be covered?

4. Reading and imagining. Reading is a continuous, figurative, and logical combination that can motivate the brain to actively engage in imaginative and creative thinking, so reading is the soil for cultivating imagination.

Guide children to read more fairy tales, myths, and science fiction, and when children are a little older (able to distinguish the difference between fantasy and reality), they can read books and articles such as scientific inventions to cultivate their imagination in reading.

Let your child become the "king of stories" and continue or adapt the story. When the story is finished at the beginning or halfway through the story, parents may wish to stop and let the child expand his imagination and write different plots and endings for the story, so as to become a "writer" addict.

So how can adults improve their imagination? Wenqu Psychology Network introduces several ways to improve adult imagination:

First, it is necessary to accumulate profound knowledge and rich experience. Imagination is nothing more than the transformation, recombination, and creation of new images of existing knowledge, representations, and experiences. Therefore, the more appearances, experiences, and knowledge are stored in the mind, the easier it is to imagine them. It is difficult for a lonely person to have whimsical ideas all the time.

Second, we should be good at recombining different kinds of appearances to form new images. The artistic image of Zhu Bajie in "Journey to the West" is imagined by this combination.

Third, it is necessary to be good at analyzing the most representative universal characteristics of several objects of the same kind, and then synthesize them into new objects. The image of "Ah Q" was imagined by Mr. Lu Xun in this way. Ah Q's prototype "has not been dedicated to a person, often the mouth is in Zhejiang, the face is in Beijing, and the clothes are in Shanxi, and he is a patchwork character".

Fourth, we should be good at grasping the similarities between different things to imagine. Imagination can be done by figurative means. For example, people often compare "love" to rain and dew that nourishes the heart, thus concretizing this abstract concept. The key to parables is to find similarities between different things.

Fifth, we should be good at extending the properties that are suitable for a certain range to an entire level. Imagination can also be done through exaggerated means. The key to exaggeration is to concretize the whole by representing the unknown whole with concrete parts. For example, when people only see the crescent moon, they think they see the whole moon, which is to imagine it by exaggeration.

Training methods

What is imagination, imagination is a special form of thinking, it is based on perceptual materials, the appearance of things reprocessed and produce a new image, so any imagination will have its roots, this is the theoretical basis for us to train children's imagination.

For children to have a rich imagination, the following needs to be done:[1]

1. Guide children to learn to observe, gain perceptual experience, and constantly enrich children's appearance.

2. Guide children to think positively and open the door to imagination.

3. Guiding children to work hard to learn scientific and cultural knowledge can develop children's spatial imagination ability.

4. Guide children to actively participate in various science and technology, literature and art, and sports activities, constantly enrich their life experience, and create conditions for the development of good imagination.

Cultivation method

1. Enrich children's life experience and develop children's appearance

Imagination is built on the child's extensive life experience. When others say "apple", a specific image of "apple" will appear in your mind, and this image is the appearance. It is precisely by relying on the accumulation of appearances that the child's imagination gradually develops. The more life experiences we want to help children accumulate is the process of helping children to establish representations in their minds, and the more they accumulate, the easier it is to connect related representations, which is the process of imagination development. In the preschool stage, parents are encouraged to take their children out into nature and social contact with each other, with the aim of giving them the opportunity to enrich their life experiences, leave more representations in their minds, and lay the foundation for the development of imagination. [2]

2. Provide children with a suitable environment to stimulate their desire to imagine

In addition to taking children out, we should also give children a good environment at home to help the development of children's imagination. Giving your child the right books, sharing the story with your child, imagining plot changes with your child, and encouraging your child to think about how it will end are all good ways to help your child's imagination develop. When reading a storybook, change the way you read, read, pause, and think about it, giving your child a time to absorb and connect with what they have experienced. In addition, playing with children is also a good time to encourage children's imagination, girls love to play "pretending to be a family", boys love to play building blocks, are opportunities for children's imagination development. Not only provide toys, but also play with your child, and imagine with your child during the game, "What did you cook for the doll today?... 'Do you remember the last time we went to the zoo?' Shall we build a home for the elephants?" ……

3. Give your child a relaxed atmosphere and encourage him to express his imagination

It is also a process for children to express what they think, not only the process of sorting out life experience, but also the process of organizing and organizing experience in the mind and expressing it. We encourage children to think boldly, but also encourage children to speak boldly, like the example mentioned above, when the child thinks as true and says, we can't simply say "nonsense" and send the child away, but should carefully ask the child what is going on, is it thinking, or is it true, to help the child distinguish which is imaginary and which is real? Try to encourage your child with the question: "Do you think why?" What do you think it will be like?"

4. Encourage children to imagine boldly and guide children to fantasize reasonably

Fantasy is a higher level of imagination, a kind of reasonable imagination, in preschool and early elementary school, children's fantasy is also in the process of developing from fantasy that is far away from reality to fantasy that is close to reality. For example, if my child likes the mascot of the Olympic Games, he will fantasize about how I will meet the mascot of the Olympic Games when the Olympic Games are opened? This is a rational imagination, that is, the process of fantasy. You can also guide children to imagine what the future of transportation will be like, and what the environment will be like in the future. Reasonable fantasy is the beginning of creation, and it is also the highest state of imagination.

Imitation and imitation of imagination are often the first step. Just like copying a copybook, you can write well over time. Imitation is a kind of re-imagining. By imitating, you can capture the external and internal characteristics of things. Imitation is by no means an unconscious copy, but a reinvention of what is in front of you and what is past through your own mind. Imitation is a low-level learning method compared to creation, but creation always starts with imitation. It has been said that imitation is as important for children as it is to create independently. There are many accomplished figures in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, who have benefited from imitation at the beginning, and then innovated on the basis of their predecessors and embarked on their own new paths. [3]

Rich knowledge and experience are the basis for developing imagination is rich knowledge and experience, and imagination without knowledge and experience can only be groundless fantasy or rambling nonsense. Only imagination rooted in knowledge and experience can shine the spark of thought. The more experienced and knowledgeable you are, the broader your imagination will be. The broad knowledge referred to here means a wide range of interests, especially the reading of literary books, in addition to specialized knowledge and scientific knowledge related to specialized knowledge. Literature and art play a very important role in cultivating and enhancing the imagination, because they are the most vividly expressed. Literary and artistic works are schools of imagination. On the one hand, literary and artistic works can provide a rich image, especially a typical image; On the other hand, appreciating art and reading literature requires that one must spread the wings of one's imagination. Therefore, in the process of using imagination, imagination naturally develops. The amount of life experience directly affects the depth and breadth of imagination. Rich life experience is an important factor in enhancing people's imagination. Therefore, we should have extensive contact, observation, and experience of life, and deliberately capture images and accumulate appearances in life, so as to create good conditions for cultivating imagination.

Balzac once said: "The key to all science is undoubtedly a question mark, and most of our great discoveries should be attributed to the 'how', and the wisdom of life probably lies in asking why." "The courage to find problems, to be good at finding problems, and to dare to ask questions is an extremely valuable intellectual quality, which includes observation, curiosity, doubt, love to ask, questioning, and so on. For young people, the pursuits of observation, skepticism, imaginative thinking, and insatiable curiosity can lead them to choose new goals and continue to study and research.

Participate in creative activities: Creative activities especially require imagination, and imagination is inseparable from creative activities, so actively participating in various creative activities is one of the most effective ways to cultivate imagination, especially creative imagination.

Cultivating the right illusion is a valuable quality for teenagers. But one must combine fantasy with reality and actively engage in practical action, lest fantasy become a fantasy that is forever detached from reality. At the same time, a person should also combine fantasies with good intentions and lofty ideals, and promptly correct those unrealistic fantasies and bad wishes, and so on. The students' imagination is characterized by boldness and unrestrainedness, because they have a strong curiosity and a desire to learn that is easily stimulated, eager to learn, inquisitive, and fantastic. Middle school is the embryonic period of creativity, and it is also a critical period that determines the quality of a person's imagination. Secondary school students have a strong curiosity and interest in the world around them, and are particularly full of fantasy. Lu Xun said: "The child is admirable, he often thinks of the realm above the stars and the moon, the situation under the ground, the usefulness of flowers, and the language of insects; He wants to fly into the sky, he wants to dive into the anthill. Therefore, take every opportunity to expand your horizons, participate in various extracurricular activities, read more books, and enrich your imagination.

Distinguish imagination

imagine

The mental process of configuring combinations to create a new image.

Imagination: The ability of people to compose things and images that have not passed through on the basis of past knowledge is called imagination.

imagine

i.e. conceive.

Imagination: The ability to form conscious ideas or mental images for the purpose of artistic or intellectual creation.

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The so-called genius is originally those who are very full of fantasy. …… Geniuses always use fantasy abilities proactively. In short, they always use fantasy to open the way when thinking about problems,...... After receiving revelation on the far other side of fantasy, and then returning to reality, the span of thought is enormous.

———— 『Takahashi Hiroko』 Japan

From The Treasury of Oriental Thought, p. 818

Fantasy can be the foundation of ingenuity

———— 『S. Maugham』

Excerpt from page 253 of "I Am the One Who Knows Most About Creativity".

Today, more than ever, fantasies, dreams and prophecies, i.e., the imagination of a potential tomorrow, are needed.

———— Toffler, American futurist

From page 105 of Futurists on the Future

Some of the world's largest, hardest-hearted companies, once the embodiment of presentism, are now consultants to intuitive futurists, science fiction writers and visionaries.

———— Toffler, American futurist

From page 105 of Futurists on the Future

Today, we suffer from a lack of utopian visions.

———— Toffler, American futurist

From page 108 of Futurists on the Future

Every age is nurtured by fantasy, lest people give up life prematurely and lead humanity to death.

———— Conrad Joseph, a British writer

Excerpt from page 70 of "The Ideas of Famous People Who Influenced Human History".

Fantasy is an extremely valuable quality.

———— Lenin, a Russian revolutionary

If people stop fantasizing, if they are not oriented to the wonders of the universe, then this is a real symptom of the decline of humanity.

———— excerpt from "Three Destinies"

Fantasy that lacks intelligence produces monsters, and fantasy combined with wisdom is the mother of art and the source of wonder.

———— Spanish painter of Goya

Imagination is the premise of doing things well, and after thinking thoughtfully, we must implement it, not just thinking about it, this is the true wisdom.

———— philosopher of Fang Haiquan

As long as we can dream it, we can achieve it.

———— human oath engraved on the gates of the Kennedy Space Center in the United States

Excerpt from the front page of The Mastermind

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