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Explore Possibility Thinking
“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said could not be done.”
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eople who embrace possibility thinking are capable of accomplishing tasks that seem impossible because
they believe in solutions. Here are several reasons why you should become a possibility thinker:
1. Possibility Thinking Increases Your Possibilities
When you believe you can do something difficult—and you succeed—many doors open for you. When
George Lucas succeeded in making
Star Wars, despite those who said the special effects he wanted hadn’t
ever been done and couldn’t be done, many other possibilities opened up to him. Industrial Light and Magic
(ILM), the company he created to produce those “impossible” special effects, became a source of revenue to
help underwrite his other projects. He was able to produce merchandising tie-ins to his movies, thus bringing in
another revenue stream to fund his movie making. But his confidence in doing the difficult has also made a
huge impact on other movie makers and a whole new generation of movie goers. Popular culture writer Chris
Sale-wicz asserts, “At first directly through his own work and then via the unparalleled influence of ILM, George
Lucas has dictated for two decades the essential broad notion of what is cinema.”
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If you open yourself up to
possibility thinking, you open yourself up to many other possibilities.
2. Possibility Thinking Draws Opportunities and People to You
The case of George Lucas helps you to see how being a possibility thinker can create new opportunities
and attract people. People who think big attract big people to them. If you want to achieve big things, you need
to become a possibility thinker.
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