I could do anything… Part IV
The next part of this exercise comes in two versions: one for folks who have a friend or partner available to help; the other for people who prefer to work alone.
Version No. 1: Team Up and Write a Movie
“A scenario is nothing more than a brief description of a movie. When you want to pitch a movie to a studio you might say something like: ‘This upper-class professor meets this flower girl outside the London opera house, and he and a friend decide to fix her awful speech patterns and pass her off as an aristocrat at a royal ball. Then he falls in love with her.’ (Ok, so not so original an idea, but… it’s just an example.) That’s a scenario.
Well, I want your buddy to pitch a scenario of your brilliant career movie to you. How will your buddy do this? He’ll work with those two descriptions: the Job from Heaven and the Job from Hell. Your buddy says, ‘Okay, you hate disorganization, so here’s the scenario: You’re working in a perfectly organized office, and everything is completely under your control. Every day you get praised for your wonderful performance.’
Listen carefully to your buddy’s scenario. When he is finished, help him improve the story. Decide if you’re happy with the life he has described or if you’d like to correct it. ‘I like the perfectly organized office, but I don’t think I want praise. I think I don’t want any boss at all.’
‘Okay,’ your buddy might say, ‘let me start again. You’re in a perfectly organized office and it’s your own office. You’re in business for yourself.’
‘Oooh. I like that.’
Back and forth, over and over, I want your buddy to adjust the story, each time eliminating the things you didn’t like, and putting in everything you want that got left out – and then try it out on you again. Little by little, by correcting that scenario over and over, you’ll start to find what does really matter to you – ‘matter’ as in ‘meaningful.’"
Version No. 2: Two Pens
If you’d rather not work with a buddy, this self-correcting exercise can be done with paper and two different colored pens – one to create the scenario, one to correct it. With one pen write your “buddy’s” suggestions; with the other write yours.
Shared from Barbara Sher's "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What it Was"
Version No. 1: Team Up and Write a Movie
“A scenario is nothing more than a brief description of a movie. When you want to pitch a movie to a studio you might say something like: ‘This upper-class professor meets this flower girl outside the London opera house, and he and a friend decide to fix her awful speech patterns and pass her off as an aristocrat at a royal ball. Then he falls in love with her.’ (Ok, so not so original an idea, but… it’s just an example.) That’s a scenario.
Well, I want your buddy to pitch a scenario of your brilliant career movie to you. How will your buddy do this? He’ll work with those two descriptions: the Job from Heaven and the Job from Hell. Your buddy says, ‘Okay, you hate disorganization, so here’s the scenario: You’re working in a perfectly organized office, and everything is completely under your control. Every day you get praised for your wonderful performance.’
Listen carefully to your buddy’s scenario. When he is finished, help him improve the story. Decide if you’re happy with the life he has described or if you’d like to correct it. ‘I like the perfectly organized office, but I don’t think I want praise. I think I don’t want any boss at all.’
‘Okay,’ your buddy might say, ‘let me start again. You’re in a perfectly organized office and it’s your own office. You’re in business for yourself.’
‘Oooh. I like that.’
Back and forth, over and over, I want your buddy to adjust the story, each time eliminating the things you didn’t like, and putting in everything you want that got left out – and then try it out on you again. Little by little, by correcting that scenario over and over, you’ll start to find what does really matter to you – ‘matter’ as in ‘meaningful.’"
Version No. 2: Two Pens
If you’d rather not work with a buddy, this self-correcting exercise can be done with paper and two different colored pens – one to create the scenario, one to correct it. With one pen write your “buddy’s” suggestions; with the other write yours.
Shared from Barbara Sher's "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What it Was"
posted by Rhoda Harley at Saturday, April 09, 2005
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