4. Possibility Thinking Allows You to Dream Big Dreams
No matter what your profession, possibility thinking can help you to broaden
your horizons and dream bigger dreams. Professor David J.
Schwartz believes,
“Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive forward-looking,
optimistic
pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.” If you embrace
possibility
thinking, your dreams will go from molehill to mountain size, and
because you believe in possibilities, you put yourself in position to achieve them.
5. Possibility Thinking Makes It Possible to Rise Above Average
During the 1970s, when oil prices went through the roof, automobile makers
were ordered to make their cars more fuel efficient.
One manufacturer asked a
group of senior engineers to drastically reduce the weight of cars they were
designing. They worked on the problem
and searched for solutions, but they
finally concluded that making lighter cars couldn’t be done, would be too
expensive, and would present too many safety concerns. They couldn’t get out of
the rut of their average thinking.
What was the auto maker’s solution? They gave
the problem to a group of
less-experienced engineers. The new group found ways to reduce the weight of
the company’s automobiles by hundreds of pounds. Because they thought that
solving
the problem was possible, it was. Every time you remove the label of
impossible from a task, you raise your potential from average to off the charts.
