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How do you know if what you are dreaming about you will bring about… or not?
“I have always felt if you know what you’re going to do in advance, then you won’t do it,” he says in the video, promoting his (Frank Gehry) tutorial series for the Masterclass online learning provider. “Your creativity starts with whether you’re curious or not.”
It says two things…
1. You won’t do it, if you built an imaginary future with all its glory in your mind, then your desire number is too high, while your ambition number is too low.
Your ambition number tells me how much of what you want you are willing to work towards.
Getting something, anything, is a process. The lower your ambition number the less you are willing to accept that it takes many steps to get anything done… and likely you’ll never get anything worthwhile done, instead you’ll engage with pie in the sky dreams (end results), and hate yourself for not being able to jump right there.
Your behavior comes from the combination of the desire number and the ambition number… the numbers change depending on what future you see in front of you, if you see anything that you could build, that you could work towards, and how inspiring that is.
Inspiration is probably the most important ingredient… and it is low for most people I…