I'm thinking about the phrase "lack of imagination" at the moment. People who can vividly imagine the future are probably more motivated to take actions that affect that imagined future.
If your imagination about the future is very vivid and persistent, you might start believing in it, so you start working toward that future goal. It's a delusion or mirage until it's realised, but you rely on it to keep moving until it is no longer a lie.
Faith, as it's sometimes called. And I don't have faith in much of anything. I believe it when I see it. When I do have faith, it doesn't last for very long. Easily shattered. I don't trust anything.
