Imagination: It’s Not What You Think. It’s How You Think | Charles Faulkner | TEDxIIT

[@danielburgess9645]

I had to come back and comment here that this TED talk has got to be one of the best explanations of sympathetic magic and imagination I've ever heard. It was very clear... Mid way I began to experience a sense of synchronicity with everything said and all things around me...

[@joshray2117]

takeaway I suppose is rather than being 100% certain about your knowledge, adopt a "what's possible" view using your imagination to make your knowledge better, which can ultimately benefit you and the world in pursuit of evolution

[@georgewmdole3237]

As a Math & English Phrasal Verb mastery tutor to children of affluent parents in Moscow, Russia Charles Faulkners 17 minute TED Talk will help me be a better teacher today than I was before I listened to his talk. I save and review all TED Talks I listen to and look forward to researching his verbal footnotes that are unfamiliar to me now but not for much longer. I teach English ojectively like I taught statistics on a graduate school fellowship at Villanova Univ. Now I will consciously add imagination to my teaching methods. Many thanks Charles Faulkner.

[@ashmeadali]

@georgewmdole3237 Hi, interesting job. Perhaps you can investigate teaching about singing HU, the Sound of Soul, that allows individuals to develop to their highest spiritual potential in all areas of life, including the imagination. A simple method with wide ranging benefits. There is a free HU app that describes/demonstrates how sing HU.

[@gonczos]

In Hungarian it is just encoded into the language... Kép - picture, image Képez - educates Képzés - education Képesség - ability Képzelet - imagination Képtelen - Not able (to do something) Képtelenség - something that is impossible

[@johnmariano47]

Imagination leads. Our realities are affected by words and by our perceptions, thus affect our judgment. This is profound. In the dance between technology and imagination, imagination ultimately leads. Thanks!

[@tomaszazach470]

...and this is where cult, religions and Gurù take great advantage on week people😫

[@stevielynn5197]

Many Thanks Jay and Tomas Z.!! I come from a state where there isn't much of a boundary with politics and religion. Religion has dominated, split my kids up and held back so many people. We are taught to listen, follow, obey and study (within the realm of the teachings)!! I feel there are just robots all around me and for me to be the divergent one has cost me. However the awakening once I was free and able to Imagine is the greatest gift !

[@johnmariano47]

Two years since, the information in this talk, I feel more and more as true. In a sense, we make our own world by what we think of it, at least within the limits of what we have seen or learned or experienced and most importantly what we are willing to go for as far as possible and beyond with imagination. Destiny is our own making. Thanks.

[@johnmariano47]

@@stevielynn5197 YW. We are both the captor and liberator of ourselves.

[@lazykid9167]

@@tomaszazach470 Yeah, and this is where science will never be able to find the real truth. because they cannot imagine that things that are not measurable with some instruments (instruments measure forces) can exist. So everytime when they try to find explanations for some thing, they blend out whole universes of other possibilities. That makes sense methodically, but arguing that the scientific state of knowledge about anything does even closely resemble the "truth" without saying that thare are endless other possible truths which were systematically not given credit / energy to investigate is just lying/conspiracy. I work at a tech company and it is sad to see fellow students not being even able to imagine that the universe/life is more than they can capture and rationalize with their instruments. science is mostly blind by purpose, but it pretends to see clearly.

[@thekcumeh]

This dude is smart, I've saved the talk to listen and listen again. Thanks Charles Faulkner.

[@akovacsrealtor]

“We do not see the world the way it is, we see the world according to our instruments.” So true!

[@RobertECheck]

@ Always Optimistic - I add a comment to yours, because, as he made this statement I saw a bit of a flaw. In that it is never, (and I take note that I use an absolute, which is generally very bad), a good practice to make a statement with a flaw in it because of possible errors in the following thoughts going forward. So, that’s the thought. “We do not see the world, “necessarily”, the way it is, we see the world according to our instruments.” I think we have to operate on the assumption that the world is a certain way whether we can discover it or not. Therefore it is possible to see the world the way it is. I’m certain we’ll be better off going with logic, reason and the scientific method. Seems unlikely we’ll ever be certain of everything. But it is what it is.

[@poweroflovepeace]

@@RobertECheck as long as you take into consideration the whole of reality, the energies that are present but not observable by senses. Like gravity. We know it's there. We can only perceive 10% of the light spectrum.

[@vidhikataria1364]

We see the world way our mental faculties and schemas are

[@jasonspades5628]

Yeah, but its not.

[@jasonspades5628]

@@RobertECheck Yes. You are correct. This lecturer is incorrect. His arguments actually are as fallacious as you think. You saw right through his word salad. I have a formal education in philosophy, logic, and syllogistic structure. The flaw you are referring to is two fold. A presuppositional fallacy (pre-assuming the truth of that which you attempt to demonstrate) A false equivocation fallacy (equation of two logically negating ideas or terms in order to produce a seemingly valid conclusion)

[@anupnaik422]

This reminds me of Jiddu Krishnamurti and his 'sayings', especially "What you are is much more important than what you should be. You can understand what is, but you cannot understand what should be. There is no understanding of an illusion, there is only understanding of the way it comes into being."

[@ogonek]

By the way it's amazing when you meet a person in life who can see things you see and you both share the same view, the things others do not see .

[@bobleclair5665]

We are the creators of our future through our imagination,,just look back to all the impossibilities and where we are now,,imagination is like a seed that needs cultivation,,peace,,

[@JohnThomas-lp3rf]

Thank you Dr Leaf. I am a South African, living in England. So proud of you. Went on a Mindpower course with John Kehoe in SA - it changed my life!

[@TommyFamous]

This is one of the better and simpler Ted Talks I’ve had the pleasure of watching. 🥰 I Love this breakdown of how our imagination is influencing us all the time even when we’re convinced it’s “reality!”

[@daramjienglish]

“Words evoke experiences, not realities.”

[@kimtae-hyungfan5251]

😊

[@DocMurdock01]

@@kimtae-hyungfan5251 hhuuuhuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhuhh is hhhhhhuhhhhhh uh uhh&hhhhuuhuhhhhhhhh

[@DocMurdock01]

Hhuhhhhhuhuhhh

[@DocMurdock01]

8hhhh

[@DocMurdock01]

Hhhh

[@dylanthebookworm6843]

I’m only a kid and I love ted talks

[@z17seattle]

Keep at it you will be a super genius 👍 well you probably already are 😀

[@cecilstone9679]

My Name Is Dylan(Smile)

[@z17seattle]

@Connor mclean you too hahahahahahahahaha

[@Ray2311us]

Dylan the Bookworm from my uni perspective I’m only a kid too!

[@nobitasupratman1696]

Same here! But no one knew other than my sis

[@bogdanluchian4591]

This guy is a pioneer on what will lead to scientifically induced satori experiences

[@syedsuhail4736]

We can see things we already know And won't se things that we don't know... This is the big statement...

[@stevielynn5197]

Truly "Last the best of all" ! I have listened to so many of these about Imagination or power of intention, that I was about done. This man is by far the best Ted Talk Ive heard and I've now shared with many. Thank You Charles Faulkner !!

[@OWalexutza97]

You have to explore and be courageous enough to express your creative energy. This creative energy comes to us unsettled, wild - as an unknown input which we have to channel to this world in the most "understandable" way for everyone. Creators are translators.

[@jackalkin6757]

Creators are translators, they translate their creativity for their respective audience

[@joyjeptoo6453]

I didn't know it takes a whole year to prep for this ted talks. Nobody is perfect yo .. this takes polishing from a group of ted leaders and peers. Brilliant talk

[@annettekelly6446]

Charles Faulkner - inspiring and motivating to make more imagination become reality! Awesome

[@bathdayvicvicgaming8074]

Interestingly humble explanation of how magical and invested our world is..

[@SafetyMentalst]

Imagination Information education Can be a new computer application Imagination gets one outa situation It can save entire worlds population Imagination for our new generation

[@setaty8165]

4:34 "Some surface quality is going to reflect some inner essence." Love this

[@hemantrawat3753]

"imagination and knowledge are complementry. it's like they're in an endless dance in which imagination leads the knowledge"

[@HoangLong-qu6cd]

Q

[@ravenkarunanayake2550]

Words don't just reflect reality. They create it. That's pretty profound.

[@daramjienglish]

“We do not see the world the way it is. We see the world as our instruments allow.”

[@kidilios44]

This was a awesome TedX Talk!! Faulkner's a great presenter, and really make his subject matter interesting.

[@fwlight]

What a great tedtalk. Lots of golden nuggets in this talk. Keep expanding our imagination!

[@rajcan2008]

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”. (Albert Einstein)

[@rogerlin9602]

Our reasoning and rationale are steeped in imagination. Words don't reflect reality, they evoke experience. Story is our favorite pastime. If you imagine your story, naturalize it, then it feels real and become fate or destiny. Thanks Charles. 🍁🌷💯🌲🦋💪⛵🎀

[@leorichies]

Charles Faulkner - Brilliant

[@philbeech1966]

I have watched this several times...thought provoking, insightful and straightforward. Thank you for sharing.👍

[@rodneypaterson7072]

Seeing the world according to our instruments and through the lens of group agreement is why new discoveries may take decades to become mainstream despite the results and definitive scientific proof, this indicates that the vast majority of Ph.D.'s are not actively cognizant of this.

[@robertfoertsch]

Powerful Food For Thought, Deployed Worldwide Through My Deep Learning AI Research Library… Thank You

[@drchalquist]

Imagination as a form of deep knowing goes far back, to ancient Egypt and then forward to Hermeticism and similar paths.

[@amolhuddar3789]

It seems like an endless dance, where imagination leads wow goose bumps all over me

[@theblackhole05]

The quest for knowledge will be an endless one and that's amazing

[@downtownearth828]

Astounding and comforting information/wisdom...Wow, thank you!

[@aijazwani3543]

Ted talks are highly useful.

[@Ok-bk5xx]

Yes but not at all. For example, Pseudoscientists speakers are there

[@rajudafouti8095]

@pol kris qQQQQQAQQAQQQAQqqqaAAQQQQQQAQQQQAqQQQQAqQQ#2`¢¢`¢`%¢

[@nicolasdiai6299]

Yes man and for me they are useful twice, infact actually i use them to learn and improve my english

[@bencyber8595]

are they selective who should talk

[@fishingthekosmos3638]

Just fantastic. Absolute insight into the progressive dance of imagination and knowledge. "The absence of something is the presence of something," as the rationale for incorporating the concept of zero into our world view. Of course. I want to hear more of what he thinks.

[@saileshram7610]

For Indians who are wondering whether it is IIT Mumbai or Bangalore or anything else, Its Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)

[@peepalfarm]

sailesh ram thank you!! Haha

[@v.dargain1678]

Thank you so much . I get migraine headaches , which are the bane of all dreamers who suffer with them . I needed to remember to not take the mental ability to imagine for granted . Great talk .

[@Luminitaispas]

What is you could immagine not getting migraines?

[@steveprimeau1407]

With our five senses, we perceive the world around us. We apply our given language to persons places or things with words that are used to define them, but in the process, we limit our experience by our limited perception of what these words mean to us. If we could transcend this barrier, we could open ourselves up to an entire new experience of the world around us, thereby, creating a better world for ourselves and others. That's my take on it anyways. It's the best I can come up with at 12:30 am. Excellent talk though - a real eye opener.

[@maggieo6672]

I love the up to date information and relevant topics that Ted talks present. These topics are usually, very well researched, and current. I appreciate the wide diversity of topics, that I otherwise, may not have learned about, or understood as well. What a way to learn, and benefit, from the many hours of research + study, that somebody else put in, to understand these different areas considered, even some questions we all wonder, being proven, by use of experiments... Thank you for making Ted talks available to everyone, free of charge. This contribution to humanity is very much appreciated. Maggs

[@markriva4259]

Faulkner says at the very end that imagination and knowledge complement each other in an endless dance in which imagination leads, but if you pay attention to the whole video, he never articulates the difference between the two and on multiple occasions equates imagination with thinking. Einstein knew that imagination is more important than thinking-knowledge because imagination is much more than we (can) think. Hence, imagination is not (just creative) thinking. It is that which transcends and includes thinking. Imagination is not pedestrian knowledge, and it is not everyday creativity. It is the gateway to Knowledge with a capital K, more akin to wisdom, and Creativity with a capital C, more akin to genius.

[@arlinegeorge6967]

Power of imagination ! Amazing great inspiring story . Thank you, bless you, All your dreams come true.

[@burden9809]

A string of pearls. Thank you.

[@sandoso2679]

Allah loves all of you ❤️🌿 death is not something scary. It’s a beautiful transition between 2 worlds. I wish all good souls go to Heaven. Doesn’t matter what your faith is. Just believe in One God and don’t verbally or physically hurt anyone and you will be okay. Signed by; a beautiful soul. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@rahulbohra8338]

I was blown away as soon as he related the analogy between our assuming the identity of an unknown object to how we assume/judge the personalities of strangers around us....[07:00 min] Also explaining the role of language playing a major part in our perception of the world was amazing....

[@JohnRDallasJr]

This is an exceedingly accessible rationale for encouraging leaders and their teams to learn about mindset development and practice metacognition. Outstanding. Thank you.

[@SafetyMentalst]

"Real or Imaginary" Some Problems imaginary not real An if someone her heart does steal So Be It truth in itself will so reveal Why worry problems themselves heal So just be yourself an be the real deal

[@perceptionshare2248]

What a brilliant talk! Love it!

[@JamesLaser]

4:24 judge people by the clothing 5:25 like produces like 7:01 we think attractive people are honest 13:21 words are different from reality

[@septicwomb4394]

Thanks man, I love this album.

[@vincedebug-0]

Omg this speaks my mind , mind blowing

[@graphologistshantanusant4745]

He speaks and explains amazingly.

[@haunted2024]

Imagination is greater than public education!

[@nishant27388]

Zero was invented in India by Indian mathematicians dating as early as 5th century. They widely used astronomy and astrology. Zero was spread by Arabians to Europe and there on it was spread all over to Asia and China and Russia, Australia, Canada, Florida, Boston and everywhere to include the coldest city on Earth

[@lucybdavies6192]

WOW JUST WOW, KNOWLEDGE IS IMAGINATION

[@j.c.7306]

Wow! The speakers has really motivated and inspired me to go on with life and being always in a state of thankfullness.😎😎😊☺

[@thumbprint7150]

Thanks for the upload. An interesting pot-pourri of many ideas which could do with depth-charging.

[@wadanda]

I've watched this about 10X. The last 44 sec are soo deeep!!

[@_MrJA]

Half-way through I was just thinking that I need to watch this several times

[@mozu3636]

Ivan Oboth Hi very honour to u... I please u if u could help about how i can see 4x video on utube !

[@stevielynn5197]

I ended up transcribing this talk word for word. I've used many of these phrases many times over and shared with people I care about. This talk can be applied to every aspect of our human existence ~

[@denirouploads8971]

Stevie Lynn Can i please have the transcription?

[@hanno8705]

@@denirouploads8971 just Google "download subtitles KZbin"... Further help needed? Just ask me :)

[@bablijhaofficial]

Thank you for such an interesting and useful talk.

[@david69funk]

I like neville goddards take on it who was a Christian mystic. We see the results of Imagination and most people are imagining negative and unloving scenes. Imagination is your real being but we each conceived ourselves to be what we are.

[@AkashVerma-to7ie]

This is verry inspired me and give a energy to dream come true

[@ishanvidyarthi7340]

I was listening with calmness as if I was amongst that crowd.

[@justadad6677]

It is marvelous to hear what you believe to be truth or at least on our way to understand, what the truth is. From someone so eloquent and knowledgeable. Fantastic speech.

[@Pankaj-Verma-]

The speech was beyond imagination!

Lol

[@eduardobeltran2754]

Just great! Thank you for sharing

[@ShelliLoop]

You are “on to something”. Rewrite it, remove vagueness....

[@huonglarne]

This is the most interesting talk Ive seen in a while. Incredible! Thank you!

[@goodperson5707]

Amazing talk! Thank you💐

[@mohammedmizel3496]

I like TED talk by which I discovered something new to add and develop my knowledge and personality

[@elianeluty2065]

I effectually watch this video, thank you very much

[@kohjiwada4757]

What you think is POSSESSIVE. How you think is STRATEGIC. What you think is THE EFFECT. HOW You think is the CAUSE.

[@bbb12124]

Imagination is agony and ecstacy.. It's fun but can lead you straight to pits of despair.

[@Phoenix-tv4gb]

Play in new ways and watch it happen!!! 😍😍😍🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@trust.it.444]

brilliant speech

[@richardbedford6657]

This helps me to understand myself much better. I have a rich imagination about who and what I am. Very enlightening speech.

[@traviswirth7443]

I love the up to date information and relevant topics that Ted talks present. These topics are usually, very well researched, and current. I appreciate the wide diversity of topics, that I otherwise, may not have learned about, or understood as well. What a way to learn, and benefit, from the many hours of research + study, that somebody else put in, to understand these different areas considered, even some questions we all wonder, being proven, by use of experiments... Thank you for making Ted talks available to everyone, free of charge. This contribution to humanity is very much appreciated. Maggs

[@elsafranco7407]

Excellent talk. Thank you.

[@April-rj8lf]

Imagination is the ability to change the future before anyone else thinks of it.

[@Brandon-fr9nl]

Best Ted talk

[@charbeltannios546]

Thank you ...👏👏👏👏

[@cynthiaennis3107]

“Right or wrong, perception is truth.”

[@pimplydickballs]

Truth exists without perception, so no, perception isn't truth.

[@saxglend9439]

Perception is projection.

[@andromaxbse6459]

All is emptiness

[@RealityTrailers]

@@saxglend9439 Limited or unlimited perception.

[@saxglend9439]

@@RealityTrailers Don't come to me for the truth only explanation.

[@lowzhao]

Beautiful talk.

[@bryandraughn9830]

I remember figuring out that I was making a lot of assumptions without realizing it. Then I figured out that I was assuming these were the exceptions. Now I am critical of every conclusion.

[@HoundtheVoid]

Wow. This is pure Alchemical Gold. I desperately needed to hear this, thank you so much.

[@heatherhill3]

Thank you

[@JulieDozierMcCrary]

Very insightful

[@willymento27cotuicity]

We need to believe in yourself.

[@lidiyal.1944]

great video! thanks a lot!

[@willymento27cotuicity]

Thanks!

[@GoCanucks2011]

Everything you do - Everything you encounter - Everything you experience - ------- is changing your brain --------

[@jorgeelizondo5189]

One of the best talks ever!

[@parkyoungshi3672]

It helps me a lot

[@exclamationpointman3852]

I thank you for the audio. I must say that the music is interfering from heating what he is saying because of the old audio noise. But I appreciate your efforts.

[@michaelcrenshaw4586]

Awesome, amazing, just perfect!!!

[@duraisakkammal2183]

Awesome speech

[@Charlie-qn4my]

Magnifique!

[@andrewhuntley117]

Really interesting. An eye opener. 👁

[@nataliiashesternov3458]

Great talk