The imagination manifests itself in a set of 13 non-verbal,
non-mathematical, non-logical thinking tools that innovative individuals in all disciplines say they
use: observing, imaging, abstracting, recognizing and forming patterns, analogizing, body
thinking, empathizing, dimensional thinking, modeling, playing, transforming and synthesizing.
Private, unarticulated insights generated by means of these tools are then translated in an
explicitly secondary step into verbal, mathematical and other modes of public communication.