Liminal Thinking

Most boundaries are convenient fictions.

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

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

People rarely test ideas for external validity when they don’t have internal coherence.

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.

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.

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.

The space between the baseline of reality and “the obvious” is liminal space. These needs, feelings, and thoughts happen inside you. If you don’t talk about them, they are invisible to others.

Think of your attention as a very thin sliver of your overall experience, like a needle on a record player.