Originative imagination, which lies on the far side of our logical brain and our ego, is where all genuinely fresh ideas come from. If a scientist devises something the globe has never seen before, he's utilizing originative imagination. Consider it as fresh clay.

Edison, Bell, and Gates were brilliant inventors who learned to tap into originative imagination. Mr. Edison, for example, was reported as having tested more than 10000 ideas for his electric light bulb utilizing his synthetic imagination alone, and they all failed. It was only if he tapped into his originative imagination that the pulled off the perfect bulb.

Synthetic Imagination

What is this synthetic imagination? This is the imagination birthed of education and experience. You apply your brain to alter things around, view them from a different angle, or rearrange existing stuff to form something “fresh”. But nothing truly new ever came from synthetic imagination.

How much of what you achieve has never been witnessed before

(by you, anyway)? If you author a new book, are you reorganizing stories, or legends, you’ve seen before, replacing characters, hacking and exchanging? If you write a fresh musical composition, are you really only changing one of your pet child hood songs? If you do a new marketing campaign, are you merely placing your own spin on a successful campaign already utilized by some other company?
Many modern originative thinking books that are available are, in reality, concentrating on your synthetic imagination. But there's nothing wrong with this - as a matter of fact it's a vital step. An original idea frequently needs to be fashioned by education, reasoning, and experience in order to mold a finished product.

Take the design of the cover of this book, for instance (hopefully you're reading a legal copy that has the cover). It began out as an original thought in my head, as the fresh clay of creation. I began to apply my synthetic imagination to fashion the clay.

As I began to transfer the idea out of my mind into my computer, I utilized my graphic skills to cut it down to what is conceivable with current technology. I forged the vague idea by adding together colors according to existent color scheme. I affected text and pictures into particular positions based on what I know of human computer interaction. It's only then it turns into a completed product.

Let me side track a bit here. All thoughts, all goals, everything we would like to accomplish begins as an idea in our mental realms, and is forged by worldly hands. Anything human beings ever created began as a thought. Anything human kind ever produced was forged by worldly hands.