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The possession of trained perceptions, of a retentive memory and great powers of association are of enormous value; but only when combined with another faculty—imagination. Imagination is merely the power of recombining certain memories in such a fashion that the combination is new. So imagination is not new memories, but in fact a new story, or way of looking at something, or a different assumption of what it means.. a little like creating a new recipe. You start wondering whether a certain mix of ingredients and spices could do better. Or whether a recipe could be more interesting with some different ingredients or, less, or more spices. Yet the ingredients and spices remain the same; it is how you use them that is different. Imagination is a faculty of the highest possible importance.

Every splendid achievement, every invention, every business enterprise, every great poem, or book or picture, has been not only conceived but completed in imagination before it became actualized in fact. And then it is necessary to be able to compare the mental pictures, gathered by the perceptions, remembered and classified by memory and association, so as to determine the relation of these memories to each other and their application to other ideas or mental images. And this valuable faculty of the mind is called associative judgment. Every idea is not equal and it takes judgment to know this.

So far we need persistence, repetition, imagination, and judgment to make our new money story.