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Maxime Lagacé

The Dynamic Duo: Imagination + Knowledge | Psychology Today - 2 views

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  • Study confirms robust daydreaming and superior intelligence are connected.
  • while daydreaming, your thoughts are gliding and ricocheting all over the place--past, present, future--accessing all your stored knowledge, memories, experiences
  • Many brilliant individuals--from Einstein to Mozart--credit their imagination as the source of their creativity and genius.
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  • He famously said: "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
  • Without imagination, knowledge would just be a set of facts and figures going nowhere.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 23 Jan 10
     
    Study confirms robust daydreaming and superior intelligence are connected.
  • Beth D Johnson on 24 Apr 14
     
    Thinking over things, whether daydreaming or being involved in deep thought over conceptual knowledge or experiences (which can involve both), strengthens connections and builds various domains and connections within our brain, among other things. This results in higher intelligence, memory consolidation, etc. - neural plasticity at its finest.
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