The Art of Possibility

In fact, we are saying that, on the whole, you are more likely to extend your business and have a fulfilled life if you have the attitude that there are always new customers out there waiting to be enrolled rather than that money, customers, and ideas are in short supply. You are more likely to be successful, overall, if you participate joyfully wi

specific goals reached or competitions won. “But, “I tell them, “I am especially interested in the person you will have become by next May.

We grow up in a world of measurement, and in this world, we get to know each other and things by measuring them, and by comparing and contrasting them.

person stands in the great space of possibility in a posture of openness, with an unfettered imagination for what can be.

Closing the exits means staying with the feelings, whatever they are. It means letting them run their course,

all the energy would be focused on chipping away at the stone, getting rid of whatever is in the way of each child’s developing skills, mastery, and self-expression.

We propose to call our familiar everyday world the “world of measurement” in order to highlight the central position held by assessments, scales, standards, grades, and comparisons.

LISTENING FOR PASSION and commitment is the practice of the silent conductor whether the players are sitting in the orchestra, on the management team, or on the nursery floor. How can this leader know how well he is fulfilling his intention? He can look in the eyes of the players and prepare to ask himself, “Who am I being that they are not shining

The nature of abstractions is that they have a lasting existence exempt from the contingencies of time and place.