Book Review:

THE ART OF POSSIBILITY … a Way of Seeing?

A long time ago I read a thin yellow book that opened my eyes literally to a world of thought I had seldom entered. It could have been the most important 210 pages I had ever spent time with.                              

I was very accustomed to have my new ideas and/or questions greeted with a ‘NO’, with seldom a lucid answer to my next question ‘WHY’?     It was years before I had this thought: Why do I always ask ‘WHY?’ instead of ‘WHT NOT”? 

The 210 pages of THE ART OF POSSIBILITY offered a feast of things to think about this. The first chapter starts with an Emily Dickenson poem. 

VERSE 1 starts:

“I dwell in Possibility –- …More numerous of Windows –                                                 Superior –- for Doors --- 

PAGE 9 gives us a REALLIFE example:

“A shoe factory sends two marketing scouts to a region of Africa to study the prospects for expanding business. One sends back a telegram saying,

SITUATION HOPELESS STOP NO ONE WEARS SHOES

The other writes back triumphantly,

GLORIUS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY STOP THEY HAVE NO SHOES”

This book will carry you into a discovery that ‘the way we see’ really does determine our responses and our belief in our thoughts and ourselves.  

PAGE 1 begins: “Our premise is that many of the circumstances that seem to block us in our daily lives may only appear to do so based on a framework of assumptions we carry with us“ 

ENJOY!!

THE ART OF POSSIBILITY                                                                                                     AUTHORS: ROSAMUND STONE ZANDER & BENJAMIN ZANDER                              PUBLISHED BY THE PENGUIN GROUP 2002