Three tiny thoughts to change how you think about vision and leadership
How you see the world creates the world you see.
For years I have long told myself two contrasting stories about vision:
Story 1: “I don’t have vision. I’m a writer, not a painter. I see things in words, not pictures.”
Story 2: “I have a 360-degree sort of vision, which allows me to see all the things that have gone wrong, and all the things that could.”
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Story 1 was influenced, I expect, by some bad experiences in school when I was a child. I couldn’t do the conventional stuff with paint and brushes. I couldn’t color between the lines, so I started to think I couldn’t do any of it.
Story 2 has most likely been wrought from general life experiences, knock-backs, failures and all the countless tiny things that go wrong when you interface with the the great uncertainties of daily life.
These two stories look like total opposites.
But they overlap in one important way.
They are both catastrophically limiting.
They’ve told me all the things I can’t do rather than the many things I can.
They’ve prevented me from stepping up or stepping forward.
Sometimes they stopped me from showing up at all.
So, last weekend, when I heard this tiny three-part framework on vision and leadership1, I was all-in.
You've got to see it as it is (but not worse than it is)
You've got to see it better than it is
You've got to make it the way you see it
Till next time.
These three thoughts came from the personal development event, “The Game Has Changed”, hosted by Dean Graziosi and Tony Robbins last weekend. It really landed for me, and I thought it would be useful to share it here.
Finally, if you’re like I’ve been for a long time, and the type of teaching — and selling — that has been perfected over decades by people like Robbins and Graziosi has sometimes tended to make you skeptical, I encourage you to read my interview with Josh Forti. We talked a lot about the positive and negative aspects of sales psychology and manipulation.