"In a sense imagination is opposite of autopilot yeah if i walk out here on the street and i go oh it's my street and i have a set of fixed ideas about it then what i'm really not seeing is the specificity" "If we can really engage in imagination it's an actual really helpful tool in living a better life" 'I think as you get older the brain gets encrusted with a lot of habitual stuff so how do you find the freshness in a moment' "'The only way to see it anew is to react to it from a place of quiet mindedness," he says. ''For me the only thing that doesn't succumb to the bullshit of thinking