thoughts while completing 360 feedback reviews
The other day I came across - as if for the first time again - the phrase moral imagination. The idea was that we must first be able to imagine a better future, and more just society, before we can change anything in the here and now. It’s liberating, the notion that we can imagine our way into the world we want to live in.
I used to read a lot more non-fiction than I do fiction, though the pendulum is currently on its way to the other side. The justification came in college during my journalism kick — the real world is so rich with stories, why would anyone need to make more up? Here’s why, I now know: the real world’s stories don’t always turn out the way we’d like them. Fiction equips us with the power to imagine our way to a different ending.
More and more lately, I find my imagination weak, small. The people I work with, they suffer from this, too. So often the solution to a problem impossible to find, until I manage to take a step far back enough to see I just wasn’t looking in the right place.
Reality can be so much better if we just let imagination lead the way.
Jen I just had the thought earlier today that my imagination is too small, that I have no vision, etc etc. how do I train myself to be better here??? I need look into that
