Life is increasingly digital and analogue – opening up possibilities of imagining not available before.

Pride, greed, and foolishness are certainly enemies of the creative and generous life, but it could be that for many the enemies are more likely low opinion of self, low expectation, and a play-it-safe attitude.

Humility, gratitude, and faithfulness come to the rescue when it comes to all of these enemies. And maybe some virtual help will make it possible for us to see just what we can do with who we are and what we have.

James McQuivey tells of FaceCake’s virtual mirror which will make it possible for you to try out clothes virtually – not only do you appear to be wearing these, they move with you. The experience of shopping is going to change dramatically.

All of which gets me to wondering, what if there were an ways to try on a life using your talents and passions you hadn’t imagined before?

Something like StrengthsFinder* makes this possible in a simple way, and you and I are able to connect through Thin|Silence to imagine ways in which we can use our art – something not possible fifteen years ago.

These tools are crude at the moment, but I imagine ways and means developing which are far more sophisticated. (At the moment, If I knew your Strengths and passions, I’d draw a picture of what you could do with these.)

The digital world is not an unreal world. It’s making visible what has been invisible to us – similar to how infra-red technology makes visible more of stage huge spectrum of light invisible to the Human eye.

If you know of something available now which can draw these future possibilities then, please, let me know.

Let’s keep imagining.

(*Many of the people I work with are amazed at how StrengthsFinder knows the things it does about them.)