When presented with a new idea that is outside the boundaries of your own limitations, you set for yourself, do you automatically say, “I can’t do that?” Do you strive to convince the presenter that you cannot do it? Do you spend your energy defending your own limitations?
If you do, you will surely keep them.
Instead, you could envision how you might be able to do it – how you might be able to go beyond what you thought was your limit. You could dig in and figure out how you could get there, instead of how you can’t.
Let’s try it. Pick one of these things you have never done –
Can you kayak down a river?
Can you change the tire on your car?
Can you fix the gutter that is hanging off your house?
Can you read a 300-page book and pass a test on it?
Can you learn to read a Profit and Loss Statement and a Balance Sheet?
Can you use an AI app to study how a bumblebee flies and have it create a one-page summary report on the subject?
Can you use AI to make a photo of yourself and your child in a rollercoaster car speeding down the track?
Can you get a surfboard and go surfing?
What does your brain say to things that are foreign and out of your self-imposed comfort zone?
Do you fight for “no”? Or do you figure out “yes”?
L.J, greetings.
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Fiseha, Ethiopia
L.J, greetings.
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Fiseha, Ethiopia
The only one I can’t do is surf! Never actually tried but I assume I would struggle! 🙂
We definitely should never think ourselves incapable of doing something though. If it’s important enough to us then we should persist until we get it. Even if it doesn’t come easy we should still try until we eventually succeed.
Babies are the most determined creatures there are and learn to go from no skills to amazing skills in a very short time. It’s not uncommon for them to go from immobile and nonverbal to running and talking in just two years. In 4-5 years they could be reading. The difference is that they spend every waking moment trying to succeed in small focused areas and they do it with great encouragement, coaching and support. Imagine what we could all accomplish if we focused our efforts, received continuous encouragement and learned from those who have done it before. The sky is the limit!
I figure out “yes”.