Kevin Kelly

And that's why when young people are starting off who have very little resources, they don't understand they actually have an advantage over the established companies.

That lack of resource is an advantage to them.

Yes, I have slowly concluded, maybe this is a changing of the mind, that almost any virtue or quality or talent can be improved.

They're certainly unequally distributed and everybody has a higher or lower degree of the natural amount to begin with.

But this is the beauty of it.

No matter where we start, we can always get better at it.

And I think imagination is a skill.

That can be taught and can be learned and can be improved, even though there are certainly people who are more naturally inclined in that direction than others.

And the same with optimism.

I think optimism is something that you can learn and become more optimistic.

And it's like a habit.

And that's true for playing music and everything else.

And so a lot of the work, almost going back to what I was saying before about imagination, is mostly reflection.

forgetting what is the expected answer.

I know this from doing lots of workshops with corporations and groups of people from all walks of life, and they were trying to get them to imagine futures.

And it was so, so hard to have them let go

of what they've seen in Hollywood or what they've seen in the movie or what they have been told is possible.

And that ability, what Brian Nino and I call the unthinkables, to inhabit those kind of improbable worlds is a skill that has to be learned.

It has to be regained.

I mean, I think we have it in childhood, but we are rewarded in other ways for paying attention to reality and understanding what it is everybody accepts.