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As a kid in school I was almost always the one the most knowledgeable. I was a kid that always remembered the historical dates, the math formulas, the chemistry tables, and such but I was also a kid that had difficulty with imagination. My worst subjects were art class, English creative writing and anything else involving creating something from scratch.

During the early part of my career, I made a decent salary because I was good at “knowledge” tasks. I would learn how to do something, apply it and continue on to the next “knowledge” task. It wasn’t until I began to really explore my imagination and creativity that my career really started taking off.

It was no longer a matter of simply knowing how to do a task but finding a way of doing it better and this is what led me to move into senior level management and executive management over the course of my career.

Now I take the knowing and combine it with imagination to come up with new ways to be successful. As it pertains to finance, it was taking pieces of different strategies: index investing, options writing, etc and coming up with a better way to invest: ETF Covered Calls.

It is always disheartening to hear someone say, “No one can beat index investing” because it shows how little creativity or imagination someone has with regards to investing strategies. I think these people should think, “I’m going to try to find a creative way of beating the market” but that rarely happens as too many people are too conditioned to focus on the “knowledge” task vs. the “creative” extrapolation.

Ironically, it was a failure to imagine what would happen if home prices stopped climbing astronomically that has created the current market mess. It was a failure to imagine that 19 hijackers could topple two towers with little more than a bluff that led to the tragedy of September 11th.

It will be a failure of imagination that will lead millions to lose tons of money in this market over the next few months as the markets shudder and shimmy. It will be a failure of imagination that will keep people from profiting during this mess.

On a side note, I’m now an avid art collector of paintings, sculptures and other things that stimulate my imagination and it has only led me to even greater success over the most recent years.

“Imagination is more important that knowledge” -Albert Einstein