All right, Principle number five that Napoleon Hill talks about is imagination. Imagination is quite simply summed up in the ability to think about things and come up with new ways of seeing it from a new perspective. It's sometimes what people would call a muse, something that comes and goes, but I wouldn't really say that. I would say it's more of having an environment that allows you to become imaginative. And through this environmental setting, the imagination comes. And oftentimes Napoleon Hill talks about struggling sitting inside of a chair and, you know, looking up at the ceiling and doing this but that's not often Where imagination really comes into play?
Imagination is more or less summed up again, as yet another emotion box. But this emotion box uniquely enough, has multiple fuses coming in and out of it. And the odd thing is, is that when you put in a moat imagination, sometimes the things that we imagine, they're just mundane, they're, they're more or less something that wouldn't actually derive success or an end result in our actual lives. But it's just isn't it unique to think about something like that, and that's more of the input. And what this does is it eventually starts expanding how much imagination you can hold. It's kind of how easily you can touch into this neural network.
And this kind of I'm sure that science will eventually prove to to be about the same but let me Imagination is more of just a storehouse of a mastermind of ideas. And by mastermind, I literally mean, when I think of masterminds, I think of people just coming together, and literally raining down each of these teardrops, just being an idea. You know, this is idea a. And here's idea D. And here's idea z, and they're just raining down ideas, and you get to choose one of them. See, the thing is, is that you know, the more that you, you think about things, the more unique they can get, like, oh, what about this and that, you know, or this and that's kind of the use of imagination is that the more that you use it, the more that you're able to use it, and the fun ideas.
When you have an environment where you feel relaxed, that's the best place for it. And it's not about having music. If you do have music, I often suggest you have instrumentals All right. instrumentals are key if Music Alright? Because you don't want words giving you adlib suggestions because sometimes some word songs may be happy and sad and go this way in that way and give you stories and it's not what this is about. Imagination is about having this universe of just ideas that you can pluck out, and then you start honing in your ability.
As you you know, enlarge the storehouse, you start honing in this ability to be able to pick out great ideas. And it's almost like, what I consider a funnel, where you get a hone down where it's like, you know, you know, oh, here's these a million great ideas, right? And then there's this, and then there's that and then there's this and then there's that and then your imagination. starts taking over here. And we can make these things work because you know, this plays within a certain realm of possibility that I know. And that's the cool thing about imagination is that when you start plucking ideas out, is everything gonna work?
No. But the point is, is that you're trying, you're using your thinking, and through raining out different ideas, you're going to eventually fall on one that's just this Eureka. And it's not until you really start using your imagination. You start really masterminding thinking about these ideas, that you're finally going to stumble on something, you know, it's not gonna be the first second third, it may not even be the 14th or 15th. Sometimes these things may even take an hour or two or a few days. But let me tell you, the more time and energy that you put into an idea, oh, the more that it reaps in the output.
And that's what imagination is all about.