The capacity to see the consequences of your actions

The capacity to see one’s way through, without the need to muddle through is possessed by about 1% of humanity.

It is the same capacity that can clearly see what your current actions will result in if you continue them.

It is the same capacity that can see what changes you need to make in your attitude and in your behavior to effect lasting change.

It is the rarest capacity… but it is also the hardest capacity to make work for you if you don’t have the habit of looking.

In a Landmark Education seminar, Inventing Yourself, there was a session where you were asked to stand in front of what you have never seen, what you can’t recognize from memory, and keep standing there until you see it.

In another session, we were told that if we stood on the top of the mountain symbolizing our success, we would be able to see the wrong turns, the potential mistakes, the dead ends… and make it to the top, while most people never do.

200 people in the seminar, and I was the only person who was even willing to stand there and stare into the ‘I don’t know that I don’t know’ space…