Liminal Thinking Quotes

“We construct our beliefs, mostly unconsciously, and thereafter they hold us captive. They can help us focus and make us more effective, but sadly, they also can limit us: they blind us to possibility and subject us to fog, fear, and doubt.”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

“If you give people facts without a story, they will explain it within their existing belief system. The best way to promote a new or different belief is not with facts, but with a story.”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

“Most boundaries are convenient fictions.”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

“That concept is important enough that I’m going to say it again: People rarely test ideas for external validity when they don’t have internal coherence. If it doesn’t make sense from within the bubble, you’re going to think it’s a mistake, or a lie, or somebody got it wrong. You will tend to do whatever is necessary to protect the consistency and coherence of that bubble, because to you, that bubble is reality itself. Liminal thinking requires a willingness to test and validate new ideas, even when they seem absurd, crazy, or wrong.”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

“Having an idea of an elephant in your head is not the same thing as having a real elephant in your head!”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

“Like the blind men and the elephant, it’s often the case that people see the same thing, but they see it differently, and the argument over who is right and wrong distracts them from learning or doing anything productive with the situation they find themselves in. The obvious is not obvious. Even”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

“I once asked a neuroscientist, “What’s the difference between consciousness and dreaming?” “Very little,” he told me. “In fact,” he said, “if you look at an MRI, at the actual brain processes that are happening when you are dreaming and when you are awake, they look almost identical. Only a practiced neuroscientist can tell the difference.” What”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

“The obvious is not obvious. It is constructed”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

“Based on the belief I chose, I could have created either one of those worlds. If I had chosen to believe Spitfire was a problem dog and I had acted on that belief, it would have been a self-fulfilling prophecy. By my belief and actions, I would have created that world. But I chose to believe Spitfire was a good dog, and acted accordingly. By those actions, my wife and I created that more positive shared world, with a lot of help from the dog, of course. That is the power of a story web. Changing stories can change reality.”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

“Some years ago, I came across a book that had inspired me as a high school student. The book was called Rapid Viz: A New Method for the Rapid Visualization of Ideas by Kurt Hanks. It was the first time I had ever seen someone articulate the idea of drawing as thinking, which since then has become a central theme of my life and work.”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels. —Albert Einstein Some”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

“When people confuse their beliefs with reality, they get into arguments and conflicts,”
― Dave Gray, Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think