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What is the most dangerous thing you can think of? The answer is probably not imaginationThe ability to have new ideas or make mental pictures of things you have not seen. .

Today, most people say that imagination is a good thing. But for a big part of history, many said that imagination was dangerous.

Now, in a fascinatingVery interesting. book, writer Albert Read says that anyone can have a good imagination. He says imagination is a great thing. It can make you successful, bring you closer to other people and help you change the world.

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Just as you can go to the gym and train your body, Read says you can train your mind. Some of the training is simple: going for a walk and reading lots to learn new things.

In the past, some people would have disagreed with Read. They thought that good ideas were gifts from the gods, not something that humans created.

And at other times, people thought that imagination was simply not needed. The scientist DescartesRene Descartes was a 17th Century French philosopher, scientist and mathematician. said it was "in no way necessary to my essenceThe basic nature of a thing.".

Yes! You can train yourself to be lots of things, and imaginative is one of them.

No! You can learn about more things, but you cannot learn imagination. Some people just have better ideas than others.