◦ Find something that you really want to do, but seems impossible. Get in touch with your inner vision: the ability to “see” the invisible, what isn’t there yet, what isn’t even possible yet. 👇
2/ • Figure out what you want to do that is way beyond your realm of possibility.
◦ Realize that that’s just a problem: a situation in which you don’t yet know how to get what you want, starting from where you are and what you have.
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3/ ◦ Let yourself go into WONDER as an adventure: I wonder why, I wonder how, I wonder if… Practice wondering about everything. Go see amazing things, like magicians and other astonishing performers. 👇
4/ Go look at art and experience the amazement that you used to feel as a child. Look at technology through your reawakened sense of wonder. But, this will cause some discomfort. See next item. 👇
5/ ◦ Experience and embrace the inevitable feelings of uncertainty, ambiguity, frustration, not knowing and incompetence, as an opportunity for discovery, creativity, and learning. You must retrain yourself to have these feelings turn you on, not off.👇
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"We learn on the edge of our own incompetence" - @GeorgeSilverman
◦ Now you are in a state of Wonder, fueled by a welcomed sense of uncertainty.
◦ Now let your imagination run wild. 👇
7/ Apply the creativity techniques you already know: Imagine as many alternative steps to getting there, many of which are themselves impossible. Don’t let that turn you off, even though your rational mind is screaming, “No, it’s impossible.” 👇
8/ ◦ Learn to view each sub-problem from many viewpoints, perspectives, angles, approaches, standpoints, stances, positions, locations, directions and points of view. We are all trapped in our own illusions. 👇
9/ The only way to escape — to see the whole picture — is to view from multiple places.
◦ Generate impossible alternatives and keep imagining possible and impossible ways to do them. Your mind will keep screaming that you are on a futile quest. 👇
10/ Remind it that that’s what you feel before the breakthrough.
◦ Eventually (over days, months or years) you will discover ways to do each of these things. More and more of these impossible steps will become possible. 👇
11/ ◦ When they are all possible, you are doing the “impossible.” Don’t forget to celebrate and keep reminding yourself that you’ve done it before and you’ll do it again.
Improve your thinking — even if you are a genius
VERY IMPORTANT THREAD + TEMPLATE
1. Think of thinking as a conversation with yourself, a dialogue or a group meeting of your parts:
What kind of conversation is this? 👇
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1a. An exploration, creative stream-of-consciousness, investigation, attempt to explain a puzzling situation?
A fantasy, a reminiscence or re-living af a past event.
A celebration of an achievement.
A performance review.
An attempt to understand an emotion
2. Goal: Perhaps you are trying to come up with a new approach, or explain an unexpected result., or understand a confusing situation.
2a. Like in a conversation, Go Meta and try to state the goal and PROCESS (it can shift):