Downward spiral talk
Some excerpts from The Art of Possibility:
Downward spiral talk is based on the fear that we will be stopped in our tracks and fall short in the race, and it is wholly reactive to circumstances, circumstances that appear to be wrong, problematic, and in need of fixing....
Focusing on the abstraction of scarcity, downward spiral talk creates an unassailable story about the limits to what is possible, and tells us compellingly how things are going from bad to worse.
The practice (of The Art of Possibility)... as a whole is to distinguish between talk in the downward spiral and conversations for possibility. The question one asks is:
