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Posted on November 21, 2014 @ 12:35:00 PM by Paul Meagher
I took a trip down to the farm today ostensibly to do some work. That might happen. No rush, nothing is growing and
most of the major winterizing is done.
Another reason to head down to the farm this weekend was so that I could change my mileau and perhaps stimulate my imagination
a bit more. I find that spending time at the farm puts me into a different frame of mind and makes me think differently.
The farm is what exists outside my window right now. The farm is also something that exists in rich detail in my imagination.
Imagination feels like an emotionally invested set of visualized goals that I want to maneuver the farm towards.
A business startup is what you exist in right now. A business startup is also what exists in your imagination.
A business startup is something that both exists and is imagined.
The goal is to "bring imagination into being" as Adrienne Clarkson so succintly put it in the 2014 Massey Lectures.
In Adrienne's 5th lecture (available online at the link) she discusses the power of "as if" thinking to turn imagination into being. She also suggests that "as if" thinking might be similiar to what is colloqually described as "taking it on faith".
I think it is therefore befitting to offer up a music video with the title "Take It on Faith" by Matt Mays. The video is comprised of old National Film Board footage from the 60's.
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