Iāve been reading Gary Kellerās āOne Thingā, which defines three types of goals: doable, stretch & possible. āDoableā, of course, is the low hanging fruit, the no/low risk path. āStretchā pushes you, but youāre still within the view of ālimitsā; some more risk and more effort than ādoableā. Then we have āpossibleā. Well, I donāt like Kellerās term, but weāll go with it. Because āpossibleā really pushes our mind past what we view as possible. Itās not about what we think as possible, but pushing past our viewed limits and discovering the truly possible. I like ābeyond possibleā, but I think that would push people away from trying, as much as āimpossibleā would. Ah, the āimpossible!ā I donāt believe in impossibilities. Rather, possibilities limited by either vision or a lack of technological progress. In Michio Kakuās āPhysics of the Impossibleā, he defines three types of impossibilities: class 1, 2 & 3. Class 1 are technologically impossible, but donāt violate physical la...
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