Ash ExantusChief Financial Educator, Ash Cash Enterprises · Financial Empowerment Leader | Public Affairs Strategist | Media Executive | Advocate for Economic Equity & Financial Literacy | Champion for Formerly Incarcerated Communities

Humans are the only creatures that can think of something then go create it 🧠

14 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker reflects on the mind's inability to distinguish between reality and imagination, noting how experiences—like briefly visiting a mansion—can create lingering visions that contrast with everyday life. He emphasizes the habit of revisiting empowering media such as the book Think and Grow Rich, documentaries, and songs to reinforce this mindset. Drawing on a theological perspective, he argues that God created the world through imagination, and because humans are made in God's image and likeness, they inherit the same creative power. The central claim is that humans are uniquely capable of conceiving an idea and then manifesting it, a capacity that other creatures, like bears, lack.

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The mind doesn't know the difference between what's real and what's not real. And if you are at a particular place, if you go to a mansion, let's say, and you have that one experience one time, once it's gone and you go back to your neighborhood, now you're constantly feeding yourself this other vision that negates this vision that you just saw. But guess what? I rethink Grow Rich every year. Right, there's documentaries that I watch over and over. There's songs that I listen to over and over and over again. God created the world from what? With God's imagination, right? Image and likeness, imagination. God thought of something and then said it is so. And so, if I'm made in the image and likeness of God, then I have the same power. Think about this, the human being is the only creature that could think of something and then create it. Powerful. The bear can't do it, right?