Living From Possibility
What would a life lived from possibility look like as opposed to a life of problem-solving
Living From Possibility
That's in part because our beliefs about it not only help make the world what it is, but make us who we are.
No single overarching theory of truth can encompass everything we would wish from such a theory, and indeed truth is never finally known; but that does not in any way invalidate the attempt.
-ian mcgilchrist, Matter with things
Stated another way, freedom to win is freedom to get smarter in the sense of a given finite game.
Freedom in a finite-game sense is always freedom-to-win (and therefore, freedom to stop playing at some point). That’s the conclusion Sam arrived at two weeks ago. You graduate and level up to a qualitatively different finite game; one that requires you... See more
Freedom in a finite-game sense is always freedom-to-win (and therefore, freedom to stop playing at some point). That’s the conclusion Sam arrived at two weeks ago. You graduate and level up to a qualitatively different finite game; one that requires you... See more
Freedom to win is still within the context of a finite game.
In life design we know that there are countless possibilities but aren’t stymied by that fact. We revel in exploring a few possibilities, then taking action by starting with a choice. Only by taking action can we build our way forward.
Dave Evans • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
The point is to try and step outside of your existing framework for thinking about how you approach (some set of) things, and to perceive how your past experience and existing worldview influences your expectations of how things will go, and how those expectations would then influence the outcome. It can be helpful to do thought experiments where y
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This is describing about the tendency to get trapped in the HOW based on the past. Focus on the next thing determining your current way of being, creates more of the future you want to see. Deliberately stepping out of the local optima you’ve created can result in desired outcomes as a side effect. For me, if I want to coach more awakened tech CEOs I have to assume abundance and that I already can talk to them.
Rather than hoping things are better in the future, what if life could be meaningful and purposeful now, by living in line with what matters most to you? You still get to strive towards change and achievement with all your strength, but you are not waiting for a meaningful life, you already have it.
Dr Julie Smith • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The Sunday Times bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold
Life is not going to turn out in future. That is hope as a defense mechanism. Life is brimming infinite possibility right now in this moment because it’s empty and meaningless. And it’s empty and meaningless that it’s empty and meaningless.
Our difficult situations become more hopeful if we recognize that events are never only what is explicitly formed. If we deal with events as having very many more possibili- ties, and if we understand that the possibilities can emerge only gradually as actual events bring new implying, then we may find a few steps that now begin something new.
focusing.org • 01_Gendlin_FocusingResearch
condition your mind to see the possibilities, the potential in life. If we all did this, the world would be a very different place.
Carrie Green • She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur
Life is an endless unfolding, and if we wish it to be, an endless process of self-discovery, an endless and unpredictable dialogue between our own potentialities and the life situations in which we find ourselves. By potentialities I mean not just intellectual gifts but the full range of one's capacities for learning, sensing, wondering, understand... See more
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