Think we haven’t written enough about swarms lately? Well, Thursday is for swarms. Decentralized, swarmish networks aren’t about money–they are about vision and value. Vision is the key:
In a post on Google Plus, Yunus writes some wise notes on the importance of vision:
We get what we want, or what we don’t refuse. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us, and that poverty is part of human destiny. This is precisely why we continue to have poor people around us. If we firmly believe that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong in civilized society, we would have built appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.
We wanted to go to the moon, so we went there. We achieve what we want to achieve. If we are not achieving something, it is because we have not put our minds to it. We create what we want.
What we want and how we get to it depends on our mindsets. It is extremely difficult to change mindsets once they are formed. We create the world in accordance with our mindset. We need to invent ways to change our perspective continually and reconfigure our mindset quickly as new knowledge emerges. We can reconfigure our world if we can reconfigure our mindset.
This is an excellent illustration about how the boundaries of our goals can be self-defeating if they are not matched to our vision. For example, we think we can reach or sell to 10–so the steps we take to do so keep us from reaching 100. See also: “Setting impossibly high standards” and “Not big enough.”
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