The Art of Imagination - Episode 1 All Learning Reimagined Look around you for a moment. The chair you are sitting on, the phone in your hand, the building around you, the music playing through a speaker, the aircraft crossing the sky. Almost everything humans have created existed, in some form, in imagination before it existed in physical form. Someone had to conceive of a possibility that wasn'…

  The Art of Imagination Episode 1 All Learning Reimagined Imagine holding a fresh lemon in your hand. Feel its weight. Notice the slightly textured skin. Now imagine cutting it open and smelling that sharp citrus scent. Picture lifting a wedge to your mouth and biting straight into it. Did your mouth water? Did your face tighten slightly? Did something happen in your body even though there…

  The Art of Imagination – Episode 1 All Learning Reimagined What else could this be? When I was a child, there was an Australian television character called Mr Squiggle. He was a puppet with a pencil for a nose, and his particular talent was turning a few seemingly random squiggles on a page into something wonderful. Sometimes he would look at the marks from one direction, then turn the…

When was the last time someone gave you their complete attention? Not listened while checking a phone, glancing at a screen or mentally preparing what they wanted to say next. Not waited patiently for a gap in the conversation so they could offer advice or tell you about a similar experience of their own. I mean really listened, with nowhere else they needed to be for that moment. Most of us know…

Imagine two people standing beside the same stretch of ocean. One sees water, waves, perhaps a beautiful view and a few birds overhead. Beside them stands an experienced fisherman who appears to be looking at exactly the same scene, yet is perceiving an entirely different world. They notice the direction of the wind, the movement of the tide, where birds are gathering, subtle disturbances on the…