Creative Acts

I think the concept of creative imagination is usefull in this discussion. Maybe it is not so much about being innovative or not, but about the question: are you using your creative imagination? Do you only react on what is happening or do you take the time to fly around the situation, see it from different perspectives, and imagine how it could be, how you would like it to be?

Yesterday I had a discussion about what is a good way of being active in society and I got the critical remarc that it is most important to be practical, to realise things in practice. I agreed, but added that according to me it is most valuable when you connect the practical with reflection and imagination. Only creative imagination would make the world flow away in total extasy, only practical action misses a good idea, a sense of what is happening.

So, for a good action you need to 1. reflect over the situation, fly around the subject and research your motives to do something with it; 2. use your creative imagination; 3. Act in practice. I think acting in practice should mostly contain more than just publishing or spreading your ideas, but should somehow include realizing them. Then the question if your action is innovative or not becomes less relevant.