Letter from Lhasa, number 260. (Wind 2006): The Power of Impossible Thinking
by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi
Wind, Y., and C. Crook, The Power of Impossible Thinking. Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business, Pearson Education Inc., 2006.
(Wind 2006).
Yoram (Jerry) Wind,
Colin Crook,
Robert Gunther
We see what we think. For changing the world, one needs first to change one’s own thinking.
Mental models are useful and, at the same time, they may become obstacles or to cause disasters. There are no formal recipes for success either for changing these recipes when not anymore adequate.
Impossible thinking is simply the skill to find solutions before unimaginable. The point would eventually be about the adequacy of the new solutions and whether they would be really innovative relatively to the old ones.
Actually, the large majority of innovative people is slave of current pattern of thinking. Consequently, only casually, and in a very limited field (generally concerning the profession of the innovator), what are considered innovative people may find some innovative solution.
“What you think is what you do.” (Wind 2006). If one sees what one thinks, obviously one, everyone, acts according to one’s own mental patterns.
Wind, Y., and C. Crook, The Power of Impossible Thinking. Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business, Pearson Education Inc., 2006.
