MAJOR MINDSKILLS THREAD
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How to Do the IMPOSSIBLE #TEMPLATE
◦ 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. 👇
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How to Do the IMPOSSIBLE #TEMPLATE
◦ 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. 👇
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• 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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• 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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◦ 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. 👇
◦ 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. 👇
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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. 👇
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. 👇
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◦ 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.👇
◦ 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. 👇
"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. 👇
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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.” 👇
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.” 👇
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◦ 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. 👇
◦ 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. 👇
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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. 👇
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. 👇
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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. 👇
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. 👇
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◦ 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.
Remember: "Impossibility" is an illusion. -@GeorgeSilverman 👇
◦ 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.
Remember: "Impossibility" is an illusion. -@GeorgeSilverman 👇
I hope this was useful to you, personally. I welcome comments & questions.
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The entire thread is posted on my MindSkills Playbook @RoamResearch:
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I invite your comments and questions. I have a lot more to say about this. (This was written in 2003)
Oh, also read The Art of the Impossible, by @steven_kotler
roamresearch.com/#/app/MindSkil…
I invite your comments and questions. I have a lot more to say about this. (This was written in 2003)
Oh, also read The Art of the Impossible, by @steven_kotler
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