1. Possibility Thinking Increases Your Possibilities
When you believe you can do something difficult—and you succeed—many
doors open for you. When George Lucas succeeded in making
Star Wars
, despite
those who said the special effects he wanted hadn’t ever been done and couldn’t
be done, many other possibilities opened up to him. Industrial Light and Magic
(ILM), the company he created to produce those “impossible”
special effects,
became a source of revenue to help underwrite his other projects. He was able to
produce merchandising
tie-ins to his movies, thus
bringing in another revenue
stream to fund his movie making. But his confidence
in doing the difficult has
also made a huge impact on other movie makers and a whole new generation of
movie goers. Popular culture
writer Chris Salewicz asserts, “At
first directly
through his own work and then via the
unparalleled influence of ILM,
George
Lucas has dictated for two decades the essential broad notion of what is cinema.”
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If you open yourself up to possibility thinking, you open yourself up to many
other possibilities.
