The Science of Creativity & Imagination - Anna Abraham, PhD | The FitMind Podcast

Dr. Anna Abraham is a psychologist and neuroscientist who investigates the science of creativity and how we can optimize this key trait. She’s also a leading scholar on the study of human imagination.
On this episode, we discuss the key ingredients of a creative mind, how to become more creative, and how the brain can tell the difference between real and imaginary worlds.
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SHOW NOTES
0:00 | Intro to Anna Abraham, PhD
1:39 | Imagination More Important Than Knowledge?
5:04 | Imagination Defined
8:28 | How We Experience Real vs. Imaginary Worlds
16:55 | Fiction Crossing Into Reality
23:18 | Overlap of Memory & Imagination
30:43 | Ingredients of a Creative Mind
42:53 | Ways to Build Creativity
50:19 | Creativity in Schools
53:08 | Predictors of Creativity
62:48 | Rapid Fire Questions

[@coder5382]

"Imagination is knowledge and experiences having fun." Wonderful interview, Liam. What Albert Einstein said about imagination being more important than knowledge is quite clear in programming, and Anna Abraham summed it up wonderfully. Thank you, Liam.

[@dasumasterdasu1856]

first like.....great information

[@eltonarthur1233]

Examine yourself. Examine your mind. Be open to new experiences (get out of your comfort zone). Discover your own abilities. Like fitness, practice, practice, practice. Have space, time, and regularity. Don't take yourself too seriously. Ask yourself: How does my mind work? Why Am I thinking like this or thinking this way? What is making me view this subject or my opinion this way? "Education is left, what has been learnt, what has been forgotten." Education teaches you how to think, it's not about the task, but about what the task is trying to get you to do, go, or think.

[@Party50361]

Cool

[@sethjacobs5799]

Imagination conceiving an idea. Creation is making something from nothing. An idea-thought or spoken is our only true opportunity to create. Perhaps language, perhaps our free will. Producing is concocting raw materials into a new thing that may have existed in imagination, but it’s not true creation because you’re just reforming things into new things.

[@maryross2859]

Is there any hypnosis, binaural beats or any other kind of suggestion in your videos?

[@0000song0000]

excelent. under that framework, oir anxieties about past and future are only manifesting thru our imagination. That's a cool way to reframe oneself 🙉