Seth Godin… every now and then someone picks up a thought that gets your mind moving, almost like a strong jolt of coffee at 5am… on your Sunday morning off.
Seth brought up a scenario in his blog post “Ted Think” that got my mind racing. The concept is to mentally challenge yourself to anticipate the results even before the question is complete, imagine the end of the story after the first 10 pages of the book. He sites the case;
I sat in a meeting last week with someone who was 100% tactical. She couldn’t let go of the urgency of the moment long enough to envision a different future, even for five minutes. The abstract conceptual part was missing from her part of the conversation.
The trick is to be able to leap to, “if we did A and B, would that get us C? Would C be a good thing? Is it possible to do A and B if we really commit?” and then move on to the next one. And that takes practice. Why wouldn’t it?
Exactly!!! That is where I want to be! (not the lady). Thanks Seth… it is 10:30 pm and my mind is off to the races once again! BTW, how many books does this guy have out there anyway?
Shawn Grubb
