Whereas an imagination is considered as developed thinking which goes beyond the fact that is recognized and exists in the world through individual’s ideal thinking, there is a limitation in process of obtaining the knowledge. As it is mentioned previously there are two processes of obtaining knowledge, an active acquisition and a passive acquisition.
An active acquisition means learning something without any helps from anything but alone. When an unfamiliar event that is unforeseen happens to someone, he might be bemused and he may learn abilities to overcome the similar events that would happen in future. Even if not acquired, he would be accustomed to ways to overcome the events unconsciously if the events happen repeatedly. Suppose a businessman is starting a new business. Most of times, businessmen who start their business without any experience and knowledge has high probability of failures. Although some of those give up and collapse early in that stage because of shock, some analyze and reinforce the reasons and weaknesses of the business failure and they attain knowledge, ways and strategies to cope with another failure in order to success in future business. My father is a businessman who experienced number of failures and accomplishments as well, but he learned about business through passive acquisition that he graduated Business College and now he fortunately lives a successful life.
On the contrary to this concept, a passive acquisition means learning something through training the abilities and strategies of overcoming certain incidents repeatedly by using some sorts of methods to get accustomed before an unforeseen event occurs. Following the example of businessman previously used to describe active acquisition. Businessmen who have learned and studied in Business College or from some professional business texts are much more likely to success in business than the businessmen who neither studied nor have professional knowledge about the business because they basically have more knowledge. If there is an exception that newbie businessman success, it is certainly because of luck or support from other business. So, eventually, the acquiring of knowledge is limited. It is impossible to acquire knowledge unless some kind of unforeseen event occurs or repeatedly occurs or some factors help to acquire knowledge.
Unlike knowledge, imagination doesn’t have any limitation. Imagination accounts any thinking even though they are unrealistic, but, moreover, things created as results of ceaseless study and desperate effort made from imagination are so much valuable that they cannot be compared with such things as knowledge that created from active and passive acquisition. We are living in World full of imagination. The devices or things we use very constantly and readily are mostly invented and upgraded by certain people’s imagination, people such as Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Wright brothers and etc. Smart phones as example, they are the upgraded versions of mobile phones that previously released to public such as folder phone, slide phone, and bar phone. The first smart phone ‘Simon’ is designed by IBM Company in 1992 and is exhibited in the COMDEX (Computer Dealers' Exhibition) expo held in Las Vegas as a concept product. It is then shown to the public in the following year 1993. There must be an imagination in the background process of designing and making the smart phone ‘Simon’. May be the imagination of smart phone existed far back to the decades since people started to use mobile phones, but it was impossible to make because of lack information about the phones. However, it is finally invented and applied to public’s daily life. The inventor of smart phone must be started to design and produce smart phones by imagining about the phone which is loaded with convenient systems such as internet access, entertainments, calculators, memo, and etc. Since the birth day of smart phone, we are living a smart life by using faster, useful, and readily smart phones. There are various types of mobile phones before smart phones invented, slide, folder, and the first mobile phone, a bar phone. Slide and folder phones, which are released after bar phone is released, are invented in order to make more convenient mobile phone considering the strengths and weaknesses of an original mobile phone, bar phone. But these wireless mobile phones are also invented by imagining phones without wires which heavy, big, and non-portable telephone has got. Not only phones development, but also can or refrigerator is invented for long-conservation of food purposes. We are basically living in the world pleasing such convenience we enjoy made by somebody’s imaginations.
So, conclusion can be drawn that Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is free whereas knowledge is quite limited. Before obtaining new knowledge, there is imagination carrying on to get that knowledge from an original knowledge and the original knowledge also from imagination. It is imagination that makes able individuals to draw their dreams clearly by eliminating fear, anxiety and uncertainty about the things that will be done in the future. In contrary, if planning something in future only supporting from the acquired knowledge, individuals may give up early or some even cannot challenge because they would be restricted inside of fears and uncertainties caused from considering every single factors that may affect the plan. In perspective of this, I believe imagination is similar to braveness. Individuals who plan and challenge in order to achieve their dreams they imagined should be considered, treated, and respected as truly brave people. Furthermore, because of the achievements those brave men accomplished, today, we are enjoying more convenient life and because some individuals are still out there imagining better things, we would live a much developed and convenient life in future. Therefore, we should explore our limited ideas and knowledge through imagination in order to find out some brilliant ideas and broaden our knowledge that would bring us benefits.
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