I can only speak for my own personal experience, but I have, for sure, changed my thinking what is truly possible. I’m not 100% in the camp of believing that anything is possible. But I can’t remember the last time I declared something to be “impossible.” Highly unlikely, perhaps, but not impossible. That small shift has been enough to allow me to at least consider the possibility that something that is declared impossible is, in fact possible--if and only if one is willing to explore the “possibility of possibility.”
I agree that most of what people say is "impossible", is actually possible. And i really like your self-scaling method - only taking on tasks when they are 2-3 on the scale of possibility. but if you do not fail occasionally, how do you know if you are getting close to the border?
In negotiation, some believe that letting the other side "win" too easily will cause dissatisfaction, because the other side will go away thinking "i could have gotten more".
The conviction with which some hold the belief of “impossibility” can be difficult to overcome.
In such cases, maybe the question to ask the True Believer is “Would you be open to considering the possibility that IT is possible?”
I can only speak for my own personal experience, but I have, for sure, changed my thinking what is truly possible. I’m not 100% in the camp of believing that anything is possible. But I can’t remember the last time I declared something to be “impossible.” Highly unlikely, perhaps, but not impossible. That small shift has been enough to allow me to at least consider the possibility that something that is declared impossible is, in fact possible--if and only if one is willing to explore the “possibility of possibility.”
I agree that most of what people say is "impossible", is actually possible. And i really like your self-scaling method - only taking on tasks when they are 2-3 on the scale of possibility. but if you do not fail occasionally, how do you know if you are getting close to the border?
In negotiation, some believe that letting the other side "win" too easily will cause dissatisfaction, because the other side will go away thinking "i could have gotten more".