Have you noticed that your boss is a visionary, that whenever he is in
meetings or he or she's in meetings, and they're always talking about
the future of an industry, and maybe you might find it very difficult
to get them aware of the tactics of the projects or the ideas you want
to have, because they're thinking so far out.
Or on the flip side, do you want to be a member of that executive team
in your company, but you need, you realize that that requires you to
become more visionary.
So if you are having these, any of these situations and in this video,
what I want to share with you is how you can become more visionary.
Now I get it.
You might realize, and you might be working with some coworkers that
you might feel like, well, they're born like that.
It seems like they're naturally visionary, but I'm naturally non
visionary.
And yes, I understand some people have like natural inclination
towards thinking like a visionary or thinking in the future tense.
However, becoming a visionary, the skills of visionary thinking can be
trained.
We're not all born with it.
Just like we're not all born great communicators.
We're not all born natural leaders or natural naturally able to see
the future of an industry.
But these are skillsets that can be trained.
Even if you feel that you don't, you're not born with that natural
inclination.
So that's good news.
So in this video, I want to share with you three key pillars.
You want to develop this leadership skills.
You want to develop the visionary qualities.
And these are three pillars that the moment you are able to develop
these three key pillars that you will develop your visionary
qualities, the visionary traits that you see in your colleagues in
your higher ups.
So I'm going to go through these three pillars in turn in the video.
And at the end of the video, you're going to have a blueprint on where
to focus on what to work on step-by-step to develop these three
pillars so that you can become a visionary.
So let's go for a walk and talk about this.
So three pillars, when you develop these pillars in turn, that you
will be able to notice yourself having visionary qualities that are
observable.
Pillar number one is insight it's insight.
What does insight mean?
We hear this a lot, but I want to give you a clear distinction on what
insight really means.
Having insight, insight itself is a deep understanding that when you
have that level of understanding, you can turn your learnings into new
wisdom that can be applied across disciplines to create a clear
outcome.
That is insight.
It is very different from knowledge.
Insight does not equal knowledge.
Hopefully knowledge turns into insight, but not always.
And here's why, because we've been programmed at a very young age to
learn, to read, to take courses, to take classes we've been taught to
read in any of those educational contexts.
To read to memorize certain things, to memorize facts and figures and
information, and therefore to regurgitate them on the exam or to
regurgitate them when we need them the most.
That's how we've been taught to learn.
And as a result of these learning, these teachings on how to learn, we
therefore developed this vernacular of when we read new things or to
learn what we're reading, we tend to criticize it.
We tend to criticize it as either right or wrong, either relevant or
irrelevant and so on.
And so when we progressively take on that capability of learning or
that mindset of learning that prevents us from developing deeper
insights, because here's the progression, we learn and that's what
we're doing.
We're accumulating knowledge.
But knowledge does not mean insight.
We have to, first of all, assimilate that knowledge into an
understanding and from a deep understanding, we can synthesize new
wisdom.
That is insight.
So in order to do that, it requires a different way of learning
different way of reading.
When we read, instead of trying to read to memorize and therefore
regurgitate or recall what we've learned, this is now learning to
create new mental models, new understandings, and cognitive
understandings of the world around us, in the area that we are reading
and with the intention of creating insight.
So if you're somebody who's listening to this and you recognize the
importance of insight, and you recognize this in your bosses, your
higher ups as well, that they have deep insights in areas of expertise
and their areas of knowledge as well.
And you might notice that visionaries, those people who have visionary
qualities.
You're going to notice that when you spend time with them, that they
very quickly develop insights in new areas as well, not necessarily
their key area of expertise, but they very quickly develop new
insights.
And that really is a particular modality of learning.
So if you're somebody who wants to develop this skill.
How do I develop deep understanding insights in new domains and in my
current domain as well.
If that's what you are committed to developing for yourself in this
year, and next year, then I invite you to book a call with me and work
with me.
Every single week I coach and I mentor a group of clients on how to
develop insights, how to have that learning, how to have critical
thinking, how to be able to articulate the insights as well in a way
that your higher ups can understand, right?
So below this video, in the description below this video, the first
link is a link to apply for become accepted into my coaching.
And this just literally when you apply, it's literally the first step
is just to have a conversation with either myself or a member of our
team, just to see if it's the right fit for you.
And if we can help you with what you're looking for.
And so if you are the right fit, then you're going to join this elite
group of community from all walks of life, different industries as
well, that where we are working on becoming visionaries, working on
how do we develop these critical thinking and communicate the value
that we have to bring.
So only if you're serious about creating this outcome for you and your
career path, so that you can step up into higher levels of leadership,
if that is you then book a call and I look forward to working with you
on the inside.
Pillar number two, imagination, right?
Pillar number one is insight, pillar number two is imagination.
What is imagination?
We've been told as children to develop our imaginations.
And as adults we've been told that children have very vivid
imaginations.
So I want to give you a distinction around imagination as well.
When it comes to imagination it simply means to picture oneself.
And that's exactly what it means.
If you look at the Latin, the word imagination comes from a Latin word
imaginati, which simply means to imagine oneself and imagination is
really the mind's, one of the mind's greatest superpowers is our
ability to imagine it is one of our mind's greatest superpowers.
And if you look at the visionaries around you, it could be on your
executive team or the higher ups that you're working with.
If you look at these visionaries, you're going to notice that they
have an, an ability to picture things in their minds before it exists
inside this world.
If you look at everything around you, right, I'm surrounded by houses,
right?
I'm sitting on a bench right now, right?
I got in a car to get here, everything that we have access to in our
lives, everything that we own, all of these things that are in our
physical world, our surroundings that we can touch, we can feel, we
can see all of these things existed in someone else's mind before it
existed in your hands.
Even the house that you live in on your block that existed in the
architect's mind before it existed on the street and the street
corner.
So this is the mind's greatest superpower imagination.
And one of the biggest blockers to our imagination is that we've been
so caught up in the doing we've been so caught up, being busy, doing
our task, checking up our to-do lists, doing that what we're told,
doing what we think we're supposed to do, doing what we think we
should do or ought to do or need to do.
And so on.
We've been so caught up in that, and that's one of the biggest
blockers of our imagination is that we feel that we need to do, we
need to perform.
We need to do and do and do.
So when it comes to developing this pillar, it's important to take a
step back and ask yourself certain key questions, for example, what
would happen if, what would happen if, what might be the outcome if.
So, being the first step of imagination is daring to ask the question
what if, because imagination means going back to what I shared
earlier, it is picturing something in your mind, picture in oneself or
picture something in your mind before it exists in the real world.
In order to do that, it is an if question, a question of if.
The imagination allows us to explore a different future, explore a
different direction, explore what is possible, right?
So that is the first step into becoming into becoming imaginative,
because that really is the key for visionaries.
The second pillar for visionaries is to have an imagination and a lot
of visionaries that you're going to work with have such vivid
imaginations.
And that's what allows them to create things that don't yet exist to
create product ideas, to create process ideas, to create whole new
companies and whole new market ideas as well, and market offerings as
a result of that and improved versions of the future as well.
Right?
So that is the second pillar, is imagination.
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So what did we cover so far?
Three pillars to develop so that you can develop your visionary
capabilities.
First pillar was insight.
Second pillar was imagination.
And the third pillar is intuition.
Intuition.
So what is our intuition?
There's a lot of misinformation about out there, around what intuition
is and what it is not.
So let me give you a distinction.
When it comes to intuition, it comes from the Latin word intuit, which
means to perceive.
So an intuition is to perceive through our senses so that we can get a
bigger picture of what actually is.
And that is our intuition.
So when it comes to intuition, intuition is not the same as your gut
instinct, right?
How many of you has said that before?
Well, I feel it in my gut, right?
I have this gut feeling.
It is very different than intuition.
Your gut instincts are literally, that's what it is.
It's an instinct.
It's an instinct that causes us to avoid pains.
It causes us to move towards something pleasing to us and bring
pleasure to us.
That's an instinctual reaction, which is very different from an
intuition.
An intuition allows you to perceive things that are deeper as well.
And the great news about intuition is that it's not about needing to
develop it or strengthen it.
And that's where the missing a lot of misinformation is out there.
Your intuition is innate.
We all have an intuition.
Every human has an intuition.
It's about honing our abilities, developing our abilities to
understand it.
So if you are somebody who is wanting to know, how do I do that?
Then the next video coming up next, you don't have to go anywhere
coming up right up next is a video that I I recorded earlier to talk
about how do you develop your intuition?
How do you hone it in to listen to it?
And how do you know that this is my intuition versus my gut feeling or
my gut instinct?
So that video is coming right up next.
I'll see you there.