This is it exactly. When I first started at my current company my boss and I did not share a first language. And only just barely a second language. But we d

This is it exactly. When I first started at my current company my boss and I did not share a first language. And only just barely a second language. But we did share a sense of imagination, and we were astounded many times to see that in a meeting with several people present, he and I would be easily layering our ideas, while the other people in the room (all sharing his first language) needed to see very explicit drawings before hesitantly seeming to see what we were seeing. Without imagination, the world is entirely composed of that which you have already seen. How boring.