Three Minute Leadership- Perfect and Impossible
Seth Godin in his article, Perfect and Impossible, gives great leaders a new and exciting definition of “revolution” – one that helps reframes their mindset in the way they see the world. It pushes the boundaries of the world they see to one that can be.
Perfect and Impossible
The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible. The music business was perfect. Radio, record chains, Rolling Stone magazine, the senior prom, limited access to recording studios, the replaceable nature of the LP, the baby boomers… it all added up to a business that seemed perfect, one that could run for ever and ever.
The digital revolution destroyed this perfect business while enabling the seemingly impossible: easy access to the market by new musicians, a cosmic jukebox of just about every song ever recorded, music as a social connector…
If you are in love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.
His concluding sentence is electrifying in its poignancy: “If you are in love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.” It is an exciting and beautiful invitation to dream the impossible, to never be satisfied with what we now know and understand. There is always another reality, another way of seeing your world. “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” writes Henri Bergson, French philosopher.
On your journey remind yourself of the words of Bernhard Berenson, American art historian: “I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigor of spring, as well as an infinite variety of color that no artifact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival…each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.” Enjoy the beauty of your walk in your garden each beautiful and wondrous day. Let each day give you new eyes to see life’s incredible richness… in the people we are honored to serve, our business, community and family.
Have a beautiful day and a fantastic week!!!
Mike