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Welcome, to Your Mind

Posted by Joseph Riggio on Friday, August 18, 2006

NOTE TO ENTREPRENEURS AND DREAMERS: Remembering how you actually accomplish “the impossible” maybe the beginning point of actually being able to accomplish it again ... however, making it public may get you locked away.

Mornin' All,

There's a question I've been considering for a bit now and I thought I'd share it with you - "What's the entry point to imagination?" - in other words, "How do people get to thinking about things which aren't or aren't yet"

The reason I've been thinking about this particular question has to do with two things that fired off my attention in this direction. One was a comment I came across that was attributed to Richard Bandler, "Everything thing that has ever been made was somebody's idea first." and the other was the realization that the most successful individuals I've met are often "somewhere before they get there".

What I mean by this enigmatic phrase can be summed us by saying,

"The most successful individuals (I've met) are able to fully inhabit a "consideration" before it has any extant form. ... AND THEN, they are able to convey that form in the world proper and include others in it AS THOUGHT IT HAS ALWAYS EXISTED FOR ALL OF THEM."

WOW! ... when I "got" that second idea it really opened me up to something that had only been at the periphery of my awareness. Before I go any further though I want to take a moment and clarify what I mean by "successful" as I've used it in reference to these folks.

"Successful" as I've used the term here refers to, the ability to set a direction and sustain it to completion - without compromising themselves, their values or others in getting there. This essentially means that these folks are organized to a future-state experience and are able to hold that experience intact as they continue to more towards it. That unto itself may not be so spectacular - except when you add in that, they move toward the future held state regardless of the past or current conditions they are operating in relation to - while maintaining the most useful relationship to those conditions in regard to producing the state they intend.

Think about this in terms of creating the conditions for success in business. An individual, we'll call them an "entrepreneur," begins imagining some business they'd like to create. They somehow generate a fully-formed representation of that business and -

... "then they inhabit" the fully-formed representation - moving around within it, seeing it from many different angles and perspectives, recognizing the aspects that are attractive and those that are potentially off-putting, they are able to engage with others who occupy the representation, and maybe most importantly they are able to make adjustments all along the way to "improve" the quality of the representation in regard to what they hope to be true of/for it."

We're talking about powerful stuff here! However, most of the "ordinary" or "normal" world calls this kind of behavior "NUTS!" If these people did this too openly they'd be locked away, or at the very least medicated to stop them from doing it. So what happens instead - most of these extraordinary folks hide their process.

The question of course would be, "Where do they hide their process?" - and as far as I've been able to tell, behind logic, data and statistics. This allows them to include others who won't go where they have already been. These other "ordinary/normal" people think that since that hasn't happened yet the only "reasonable" thing to be doing would be to "project" the data they do have forward ... i.e.: they make - UGH!!! ... "projections."

The arrogance of thinking that the future could be based on the knowledge of the past astounds me, truly ... the arrogance of projecting a future that hasn't happened as though it would be a continuation of the past that has seems to me about the most useless way of operating I can think of ... for so many reasons I won't even begin to go into them. Yet this would be just what the "ordinary" or "normal" business class would expect, nay, DEMAND! ...

"Caveat Alucinor" (def.: dreamer beware, or maybe "beware the dream/dreamer" to others).

Anyway, getting back on point ... I continue to wonder ... What's the entry point to imagination? ... and I talk alot about this with my clients too ...

Joseph Riggio, Ph.D.
Tiburon, CA

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Imagine for a moment that EVERYBODY has the ability
to think about things that aren’t yet.
New ideas, not just projections forward.

But, as you say, it can get you locked up.
So most people learn to keep quiet about it, before the age of 10.
So quiet, let’s say, that they are no longer aware of it.
But they can still do it.

How would that be?

Mike Gray on Saturday, August 19, 2006

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