The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

by Rosamund Stone Zander

A shoe factory sends two marketing scouts to a region of Africa to study the prospects for expanding business. One sends back a telegram saying, SITUATION HOPELESS STOP NO ONE WEARS SHOES The other writes back triumphantly, GLORIOUS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY STOP THEY HAVE NO SHOES

“It’s all invented anyway, so we might as well invent a story or a framework of meaning that enhances our quality of life and the life of those around us.”

How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are but assessments made by a child?

We keep looking so hard in life for the “specific message,” and yet we are blinded to the fact that the message is all around us,