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I’m reading the book ‘The Art of Possibility’ which is
co-authored by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander. So far this is a great read and I find it to
be very interesting. The first thing that appealed to me in the book was all
the musical metaphors. I soon found that Ben and Roz, (as they call themselves)
are married and have two completely different professional backgrounds. Somehow
they have brought their knowledge and skills together to create this
motivational book that is geared to towards teaching you how to create your own
new, unique possibility.
Each chapter of this book represents a new practice for
bringing possibility to life and shows how to think outside the realm of what
we know into a world of what is possible if we move past our limited thinking. Ben
is the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic orchestra and Roz is a family
therapist. “Their purpose is to initiate a new approach to current conditions,
based on uncommon assumptions about the nature of the world.” (Zander and
Zander 2000).
In the first two chapters, ‘It’s All invented’ and ‘Stepping
into a Universe of Possibility’, Ben and Roz talk about the fact that
everything we need is already invented, we just have to look beyond the obvious
to see what else is possible and when we are able to do this, we step into a
universe were the possibilities are all around us.
Zander, R. S., & Zander, B. (2000). The art of possibility [Electronic]. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
good overview of the reading and how it appeals to you. There might be a different meaning to the idea that "it's all invented" not in the sense that everything that needs to be made has already been invented, but that our world-view, our perspective is also "invented" and not necessarily a perfect representation of reality. :-)
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