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Climb Without the Ladder.
What can you do when you reach the "top" of
the ladder, but you want to go further? You know the world
extends beyond the top rung, but you don't know how to reach
it. Try climbing without the ladder.
Ladders represent the tyranny of facts and data that hold us down each day. How often do we sit in meetings discussing the factual constraints of a situation to reach an innovative solution? Sounds backwards, huh? Similarly, we struggle to think outside the box. Forget the box! Its mere presence in our mind represents the physical constraints of our preconceived notions, knowledge, and sense of reality.
Are you trying to discover new markets, transform your industry, or even just finish that newsletter? If you want to climb beyond the ladder, you must travel beyond what your mind knows to be true AND false.
Harriet Rubin, the former editor of Doubleday/Currency, has assembled a list of "five uses of imaginative capital" from history's great leaders. Her article, The New Merchants of Light is inspired by Francis Bacon's essay, New Atlantis where he writes about the great merchant traders and capitalists of the Renaissance who dedicated their personal wealth and reputations to travel beyond the edge of the maps.
Read on below to find out about the oratory secrets
of Winston Churchill, how Admiral Stockdale summoned strength
and salvation
from
his imagination, and Ted Turner's near sacrifice of his life
to prove to the world the need for CNN.
Want to learn how to use your imagination to
free yourself from the facts? Check out Harriet Rubin’s The
New Merchant of Light inspired
by Francis Bacon’s essay, New
Atlantis where
he writes about how the great merchant traders and capitalists
of the Renaissance dedicated their personal wealth and reputations
to travel beyond the edge of the maps.
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