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The practice of framing possibility calls upon us to use our minds in a manner that is counterintuitive: to think in terms of the contexts that govern us rather than the evidence we see before our eyes.
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178 |
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When you fire someone, you create the possibility for the person to excel and find happiness performing meaningful work elsewhere.
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069 |
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When you do something, you stir the pot and introduce the possibility that seemingly random ideas, people, and places will collide and form new combinations and opportunities.
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151 |
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No matter how unhappy we may be in a job, most of us continue to revisit the possibility of making it work because the present role is necessarily tied to a possible self… of whom we once wanted to become.
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055 |
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When a relationship with a mentor deteriorates, or irreconcilable differences with our superiors arise, we experience more than mere disillusionment; our images of possible futures also change.
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056 |
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Working identity is not just who we are. It is also who we are not. Being able to discard possibilities means we are making progress.
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062 |
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Once you start examining and pulling a problem a part, the perspective often changes the range of possibilities.
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097 |
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When we come from a place of curiosity we expand our range of possibility.
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084 |
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…no matter what the number is, if you work toward it and believe it’s a possibility, you will not only achieve it, you will blow past the ‘reasonable’ numbers others have set.
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075 |