Bobby Mortansky

At the ripe old age of 48 I learned about Aphantasia from a youtube video made by a graphic designer (of all things). I was gobsmacked. I always thought that my seventh grade gym teacher was full of shit when he said "Bobby, I want you to visualize making the winning basket as time expires." Unlike you, Steve, I can get brief bits of music and can change the instruments (though not for long). I (literally) cannot imaging hyperphantasia. Has it affected my life. I'm sure it has. Negatively and positively. In business, it helps to have vision. It's impossible to rise to the next level without it. I've been doing variations of the same thing throughout my professional career. No career advancement into management or strategy work at all. When I am asked to do strategy, I steal liberally from other sources, add my own flavor, and call it done. If I didn't have the ability to research other's ideas and crib from them, I'd be pushing a broom.