Enjoying and Using Fantasy: Imagining a future greater than ourselves

What would it be like to time travel into the future? To peek into a world not yet known and see all that has changed and grown?

Enjoying and using fantasy calls on us to use our imagination and visionary thinking skills to see and create a future that is greater than ourselves. When we think about the innovations we have today, they all started as a fantasy in someone’s mind. In this week’s episode, we discuss how enjoying and using fantasy can help us to resolve a problem instead of just managing it and puts us in the driver seat of our creative thinking. We invite you to not just to consume, but to create with us as we explore the valuable thinking skill of enjoying and using fantasy. 

We would love to hear from you any thoughts, reactions, or takeaways you have as you’re listening and we invite you to tag us @the.idea.gym on Instagram. 

Resources from the show:

Thinking Skills: Weaving Creativity: Into Every Strand of your Curriculum by Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Julia Figliotti

George Land Study on Creative Genius: Land, George & Jarman Beth (1992), Breakpoint and Beyond: Mastering the Future Today. Harpercollins Publishers

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Musical credits: Scott Schultz, 30 Second Concerts