I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child he would grow up to be an eggplant.
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology then its myth is...
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.