Einstein and his Creativity and Imagination

Mike Schoultz

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Feb 5, 2022

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Have you ever done any reading about Einstein and his writing on creativity and imagination? Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple is key.

We are great fans of Albert Einstein and have written about many of his stories. No greater source than Albert Einstein said the true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. As such, it is almost an indignity when learners are forced to stuff themselves full of facts without bowing to the greater good of creativity and imagination. It is by far the most overlooked part of a person’s learning and a great way to destroy creativity and imagination.

Of the two, imagination is difficult to define. It is obviously an intellectual mechanism that takes existing data and reintroduces it in a variety of forms. But what gives some people an abundance and others fear it? Research indicates imagination starts with a…