Ah but…

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Our default position is ‘ah but..’

We look by habit for what won’t work with a new idea. We say ‘yeah but, what if this happens…’ or ‘yeah, but I’ve tried that…’.

That does not mean we should not question things and look for challenges. But more often than not, until you try something you won’t know what the issues might be, other than the glaringly obvious things, which can easily be remedied before pressing the launch button.

The reason for this is our habit of building a cast iron defense for justifying our position of fear of starting or trying new things.

Best thing is to just go, try it. Then learn what doesn’t quite work, modify and carry on. Form new habits.

It is a mindset thing, change the default to that will work from what won’t work.

The wrong way round

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Often we stare at things from one direction only. We look at challenges or issues and we take the same one-dimensional approach to finding solutions. Often we don’t find the solution as it is unclear how to. Many times we keep repeating the same behaviour or pattern of actions.

What is often needed is to turn something upside down or inside out. Turn the telescope around and see what the different view looks like.

Just taking another perspective suddenly will lift the blur.

It’s like only looking in the rearview mirror for the answer in what has always been done, look forward and see what could be done that is new.

This is how we find out that the telescope has been the wrong way round and sometimes for a long time.