Nov 10, 2008
Possibility Thinking
Suzy Girard-Ruttenberg writes and I quote:
“There’s a classic story about a bicycle manufacturer who sent two marketing scouts to opposite ends of a remote corner of Africa to assess the prospects for expanding its business into this unexplored region. The first scout sends back a telegram stating: Situation worthless, no one rides bikes. The other telegram excitedly proclaims: Incredible business opportunity, no one rides bikes.”
This is a very good example of different ways people think in; one of which is “possiblity Thinking”. As the name suggests, possibility thinkers believe that anything is possible even when things don’t look favorable and your mind suggests otherwise. They try to keep an overly positive attitude about things and try to work towards achieving their dreams instead of thinking that it is not practical/possible to make those dreams a reality.
There are a lot of articles suggesting that possibility thinking is the right attitude to adopt if you want to get things done. I don’t know if it is or if it isn’t. May be its both. May be some people get better results with the “everything is possible” thinking, while some people do better when they think “analytically”.
Whatever way of thinking you utilize, I think its very important to identify it and work towards improving it. The sooner you know how you think, the better analysis you would do of your weaknesses and strengths. This would give you a good chance to identify and overcome your weaknesses.
Henry Ford suggested: “I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.” Some more good quotes here.
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