Imagination for Courage, Creativity & Change with Beth Comstock
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
4.8 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Today’s podcast is all about the power of imagination—and we welcome special guest Beth Comstock!
As the pace of change increases exponentially, we’re all going to be searching for ways to solve problems we’ve never had before. Today’s guest Beth Comstock—one of America’s most successful businesswomen, author, and a previous leader of innovative change in her role as Vice Chair at GE—is here to tell us why our imagination and creativity are powerful and essential tools to build a new future for ourselves.
Fear can hold us back from making the most of our imagination, as can an unhealthy attachment to safe, familiar routes. So many people don’t take that first step towards making the idea they have in their heads a reality because they’re afraid they won’t be perfect or successful. But as Beth tells us, embracing uncertainty and learning as you go is the only way to move towards growth and success.
In this episode, we’ll explain why imagination, creativity and white space are so important, and why creativity isn’t just something to be done in your free time. We’ll discuss why so many people don’t use their imagination to its full potential, how to cultivate imagination and the importance of vision and story in achieving your goals for a brighter future.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Quick Brain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:08.0 | Free. You're mine. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:15.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. |
| 0:18.0 | I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:20.0 | I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:22.0 | Show me. I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:24.4 | Show me. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome back, Quick Brain. So how do you imagine? |
| 0:30.7 | We always talk about the power of imagination and how it helps you to be able to solve problems and make good decisions. |
| 0:36.7 | We talk about the power of vision in our show. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm so excited about this because to talk about this today we have Beth Comstock. |
| 0:45.2 | We actually met at Singularity University. |
| 0:47.8 | Yeah, several years ago. |
| 0:49.0 | I know we both are students of exponential technology and where the world is going and we talk |
| 0:54.2 | about learning and transformation and leadership. |
| 0:56.8 | Maybe share a love of brain science. It is. We can geek out |
| 0:59.4 | often about that. So Beth is as many you know the former CMO and Vice Chair of General Electric |
| 1:06.8 | so you have an incredible amount of history there. |
| 1:09.0 | What I wanted to talk about is your new book. I'm excited about this because I read it last night. It's called |
| 1:13.4 | Imagine Forward and it talks about courage. It talks about creativity, it talks about |
| 1:19.3 | change, and I wanted to talk about imagination. How do you define imagination and how do we tap this incredible potential |
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