Thursday, July 26, 2012
Week 4 Readings: The Art of Possibility Chapters 9 – 12
The final four chapters of reading for this week are
entitled “Lighting the spark”, “Being the board”, “Creating the framework for
possibility”, and “Telling the We story”. Each of these chapters had inspiring
stories of how people are engaged in the enrollment process, where the light is
spread from person to person through a single spark. Looking at life with
different perspective, being the board, and telling the story with the We
perspective are all ways to reframe how we look at life and dealing with
others.
Chapter 9,
“Lighting the spark”, was insightful for me because of how seemingly negative
outcomes were looked at through a different perspective. Instead of letting
downward spiral thinking ruin an outcome, positive aspects of events were brought
out in the light, thus creating that spark.
Chapter 10,
“Being the board”, really made me thing about how events and negative thinking
in our lives tend to sometimes control the game. If we shift our perspective
that we are the game board, and then when events and struggles arise that are
not part of our game, we choose to not be the victim and remove them from our
game.
Chapter 11,
“Creating the framework of possibility”, a vision is created to be the frame of
reference for possibility. The pursuit of the vision is a game of sorts that marks
your territory. Playing the game allows us to see all of the possibilities
available whether we fail or succeed.
Chapter 12,
“Telling the We story”, draws on all the other practices from “The Art of
Possibility” as we look away from “I” and more toward “We”. This practice is
intended to help tear down the walls that divide us and allow us all to work
together in harmony.
This book has great insight into living a life full of
possibilities. The practices in this book are inspiring and have helped me
begin the process of reframing possibility in my own life.
1 comment:
Blogger TracyMJuly 27, 2012 9:15 PM
David,
I like the way you summarized each chapter. This book does bring a lot
of insightful information to mind for living life full of possibility.
I enjoyed each and every chapter of this book because it gave me
something to consider in shifting my mindset to focusing on positivity.
This book for me was really inspiring and gave new meaning for looking
at realistic forward thinking.
