Think Your Way to Wealth by Napoleon Hill

Author:Napoleon Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: G&D Media
Published: 2019-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Creative Vision

A philosopher said, “The imagination is the workshop of man wherein is fashioned the pattern of all his achievements.” Another thinker described it as, “The workshop of the soul wherein man’s hopes and desires are made ready for material expression.”

This chapter describes the methods by which some of the great leaders of America have, through the application of Creative Vision, made the American way of life the envy of the world.

At the outset, let us call attention to the close relationship between this and the preceding chapter on Organized Individual Endeavor. All forms of organized effort must be planned through Creative Vision. The two principles are inseparable.

Hill Mr. Carnegie, you have said that Creative Vision is the seventh Principle of Individual Achievement. Will you analyze this principle and describe how one may make practical use of it?

Carnegie First of all, let us have a clear understanding of the meaning of the term Creative Vision as we are here using it by explaining that this is but another name for imagination.

There are two types of imagination. One is known as synthetic imagination and the other as creative imagination.

Synthetic imagination consists of the act of combining recognized ideas, concepts, plans, facts, and principles in new arrangements. The old axiom that there is nothing new under the sun grew out of the fact that the majority of things which seemed to be new are nothing but a rearrangement of that which is old.

Practically all the patents recorded in the patent office are nothing more than old ideas which have been arranged in a new order or given a new use. Patents which do not come under this heading are known as basic patents, and they are the work of creative imagination. That is, they are based on newly created ideas which have not been previously used or recognized.

Creative imagination has its source, as far as science has been able to determine, in the subconscious mind wherein exists through some power unknown to science, the ability to perceive and interpret basically new ideas. It is believed by some that the faculty of a creative imagination truly is the workshop of the soul through which man may contact and be guided by infinite intelligence. Of this, however, there is no conclusive evidence save only that which is circumstantial.

Let us, therefore, be content to accept the reality of creative imagination and make the best possible use of it without endeavoring to define its source. Of one fact we can be sure, and that is the undeniable reality of the existence of a faculty of the mind through which some men perceive and interpret new ideas never before known to man. Later, we shall site well-known examples of such ability. Moreover, we shall endeavor to describe how this ability may be developed and made to serve practical ends.

Hill Which of the two types of imagination is used more often in the field of industry and in the ordinary walks of life?

Carnegie Synthetic imagination is more commonly used.

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