Adjacent possibles also reveal themselves when we question assumptions.

Adjacent possibles reveal themselves, too, when we purposefully recombine things.

Seeking magic (serendipity, good luck) starts by sharpening your senses, increasing your awareness, and opening yourself up to conversations and situations where magic can happen.

Adjacent possibles also reveal themselves when we look thoughtfully at problems we face.

There are four groups of tools that increase uncertainty ability, organized around an uncertainty first-aid cross to remind you that there is help available for facing the unknown (see figure I-2). Reframe tools enable and strengthen a perspective shift, motivating you to look creatively for all the possibilities and to believe in an upside that

The role we suggest you inhabit is that of the artist (poet, painter, film director, chef) who pays attention, learns to be transfigured by the ordinary materials of life, and then from that place creates beauty, meaning, or even revelations of flavor that thrill and inspire us.

Watch Gabe Polsky’s documentary In Search of Greatness

How do we tap into this expansive field of opportunity hovering just out of sight? First, we start by paying greater attention.

While frontiers are about expanding the current boundaries of your life, the adjacent possible is about the untapped opportunities nearby, ready to be discovered.