“It’s all invented”
Have you seen the nine dots before? Ever tried connecting them with four straight lines without lifting up your pencil? I did and sadly, my mind added an invisible framework that said “within the square formed by the outer dots” when in fact this was not required.
In ‘The Art of Possibility’, the authors provide practices that help to transform our attitudes and encourage a view of the endless possibilities. To apply what I learned from this week’s reading (Chapters 1 and 2), I will use the example of my attempts to keep fit.
What assumption(s) am I making?
Although this practice is to encourage innovation, I think in this case it has at the very least given me a choice. That is, I am now officially out of excuses (my last one was that I needed to learn how to ‘properly’ use the Pilates ball in case I sprained my back accidentally) to avoid exercising.
Dang it.
source:
Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander, The Art of Possibility
