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>>> AUSTIN VICKERS: We really have to use imagination to solve our problems, and like every great
scientist in history, we have to learn how to challenge the assumptions that help to
create those problems in the first place.
If a couple is fighting over finances or a person is fighting with their boss at work,
our natural tendencies to always focus on the contribution to the problem by our partners
or by the people we work for, but to really escape those problems we have to look at our
own contribution to the problem. In other words, we have to challenge the very notion
of how it is that we are actually creating that problem, and this requires the challenging
of assumptions or our belief system.
But once we start to do that, once we really look at it and say, “Okay, what is it that
I am doing to contribute to this problem and how might I imagine the outcome of this result
or an attitude or perception I can bring to this event that would actually create harmony
between me and my boss or me and my partner,” then we can begin to find our way out of it.
So all problems are solved by imagination and by looking at that problem as an opportunity
instead of a limitation in our life.