Week 3- Wimba Session

The wimba session this week really hit on a question that I had been contemplating myself: How is The Art of Possiblity different from concepts like " the power of positive thinking" or Ophrah's The Secret? My intial read of the text made me think that Zander was just giving new spin to an old idea but after careful consideration I think that this isn't the case. So how are they different? Well, Zander is not calling for people to simply just think positvely. He's calling for a whole new way to percieve the world around you. The good the bad and the ugly. I think that where the "positive thinking" fails and Zander succeeds is that there is room for unpleasantness a.k.a. real-life. He's not calling for us to be veritible Pollyanna's but to conceive that there is more out there than what we have allowed ourselves to experience. I think Zander wants us to take some real personal inventory about the ways in which limit, inhibit, or stifle our creativity. Zander is asking us to look at ourselves more critically than ever before. It's not a question of glass half empty or half-full but what 's really in the glass...