Department 2 · Think, Write & Imagine

Use Words to Push Imagination

Use language to make a better future specific enough to examine.

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Lesson 7 of 33 · one artifact

By the end

You will be able to use language to make a better future specific enough to examine.

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Write what you currently believe about this lesson's question. Keep the note—you will revise it after watching.

The idea worth keeping

Use Words to Push Imagination

Imagination is not decoration. It lets you rehearse a system that does not exist yet and notice the choices required to build it.

Your turn

Use Words to Push Imagination

One inspectable output

Describe one ordinary day after your system works, using people, places, actions, and constraints.

Finish with: A 300-word future scene with no vague superlatives.

See the transfer

THE SAME IDEA. TWO REAL CONTEXTS.

Professional example

A founder describes the customer’s changed Tuesday, not an abstract transformation.

Clinician example

A practice owner imagines an intake flow that gives staff more attention for patients.

Score your artifact

DOES THE WORK HOLD UP?

  • Contains observable details
  • Shows who gains agency
  • Names a constraint

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Use Words to Push Imagination

  • Imagination is not decoration. It lets you rehearse a system that does not exist yet and notice the choices required to build it.
  • A 300-word future scene with no vague superlatives.

Your evidence: A 300-word future scene with no vague superlatives.