Liminal Thinking

What I learned from Kurt is that beliefs are often the main things standing in the way of change, not only for individuals, but also for teams, families, organizations, nations, and even the world as a whole.

Conspiracy theories thrive within groups who feel that they don’t have control over their lives.

Each blind man has a grip on one aspect of reality, but none of them holds the whole truth. Each man’s picture of the elephant is constrained by the boundaries of his own experience.

We construct our beliefs, mostly unconsciously, and thereafter they hold us captive. They can help us focus and make us more effective, but sadly, they also can limit us: they blind us to possibility and subject us to fog, fear, and doubt.

If you have a need, then look for a belief that provides a rule for action to get the result that you want.

Liminal thinking requires a willingness to test and validate new ideas, even when they seem absurd, crazy, or wrong.

Many beliefs are embedded in habitual routines that run on autopilot. Disrupt the routine to create new possibilities.

Boundaries give life structure, which makes us comfortable. But they can also be shifted, rethought, reframed, and reorganized.

Change happens at the boundaries of things: the boundary between the known and the unknown, the familiar and the different, between the old way and the new way, the past and the future.