[Drinking with Quotes] Imagination rules the world.
Good evening.
My name is Kiiro.
・I usually work as a salesperson and manager at a major EC company,
・I oversee a dance team of over 180 people,
・I handle event production using tools like UE4,
・I am a director for an online salon business,
・I am active both as an individual and as a dancer.
I don't have a fixed job title, but I am involved in various activities centered around communities and entertainment.
※I will write an article about my background later.
Starting with this post, I would like to connect the dots of my daily inputs using the words of great people from around the world under the theme of "Drinking with Quotes."
For our first installment, we have a quote from the great Napoleon Bonaparte:
“Imagination rules the world.”
Personally, there are many quotes by Napoleon that align with how I want to be in terms of my work and my perspective on things, so I think I will be introducing more of them in the future.
First, what comes to mind with this quote is the concept of
Neuro-Logical Levelsin coaching.
Citation:https://life-and-mind.com/leader-coaching-11367
Elements that have a major impact on human growthare summarized in a pyramid hierarchy.
Regarding "Identity," it is often said that people change when they become parents, such as a wife who has just given birth recognizing herself as a "mother."
To put it in more personal terms, I believe that a person who identifies as a "leader" and one who does not will have vastly different values, ways of thinking, and consequently, actions.
However, I have heard from others that there is a level above this...
The level of Worldviewexists, and I think this lies even deeper, representing how one perceives this world and life itself.
Honestly, it didn't click when I first heard it, but when I thought about how I perceive this world,
“Only what I perceive can exist in my world.”
There was a time when I thought this might be the worldview at my core.
In short, I have never been to Hokkaido, but because I know that "Hokkaido" exists, what kind of cities it has, and what industries are there through knowledge and information, it exists in my world.
That is why I hold the value that things only improve when you take action yourself (which includes getting cooperation from others).
That is one way to talk about having a worldview, but
Napoleon's "Imagination rules the world."
I think this is a further development of that; in Napoleon's world, what he can imagine exists as something that can be realized.
Conversely, it might mean that
to stay one step ahead of someone else, you must surpass them with "imagination" and conquer with "realization power."
This famous photo is a painting of Napoleon crossing the Alps, and I think the reason for Napoleon's victory was that no one ever "imagined" that an army would cross the Alps.
In recent times, Elon Musk has built up the SpaceX business for his "Mars colonization plan" and is starting to produce results.
I felt once again that this quote reminds us that people with exceptional imagination have led the world in the past, and that will likely remain true in the future.
In "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind," which was a hot topic a while ago, it was also stated that the power that made humans truly human was imagination—that religion, communities, idols, various stories, and the imagination for the future became the power that brought people together as a community and helped them develop.
Once I finish my highball, I think I will head to bed while lost in delusions about the future of the world.