#thelitbit // The Art of Possibility

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life  by Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander

Possibility - it’s what you create and how you build your life from there. You may not see all the steps but when the groundwork is laid, put in the work and allow the possibilities to unfold. 

This collection of twelve practices aims to shift your mindset and bring more creativity and possibility into your everyday endeavors.

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Favorite takeaways:

Our lives are based on the stories we tell ourselves and others. Isn’t it about time we take the role of author?

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

There’s only so much you can plan. Put in the foundation and work, and watch the fruits of your labor grow.

“In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.”

Faith in the flow.

“From the perspective of the central self, life moves with fluidity like a constantly varying river, and so do we. Confidence that it can deal with whatever comes its way, it sees itself as permeable rather than vulnerable, and stays open to influence, to the new and the unknown. Under no illusion that it can control the movement of the river, it joins rather than resists its bountiful flow.”

“If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what can be, for the eye, which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility?”

-Søren Kierkegaard  

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