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The Adjacent Possible
One concept that really stood out to me in one of my business school classes today is the idea of the “adjacent possible.” Although the professor did not go into that idea in too much detail, he drew upon a metaphor that served to ingrain the idea in my mind.
A child who is seeing the night sky for the first time is asked, “what do you see?” Instead of “lights,” what he is really answering is his form of the idea of the “adjacent possible.”
The Opportunity of Hindsight
Hindsight is 20/20, right?
Business leaders are often lauded for their “vision” or complain when they lack it, because the future seems unclear due to factors outside their control. But everyone agrees on one thing, that past events make a lot more sense when you can connect the dots from the perspective of reflection.
Each moment is in the process of becoming, but when events are cemented in the black-and-white reel of times past, you can make some conclusions. And there’s another saying for that: “those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Whether you accredit it to Churchill, Santayana, or Burke, the wisdom is the same. Why not benefit from that clarity of vision when it manifests?