A guest post from Michael Bungay Stanier for Zen Habits
You’ll know Michelangelo’s comment about how he worked, so let me paraphrase:
“I just carve away anything that doesn’t look like a lion, and I’m left with a lion.”
In that statement is the fundamental choice at the heart of Great Work: focus on the No to become clear on the Yes; define the Yes by clarifying the No.
I think it’s the essence of doing more Great Work; or at least it seems to be the critical lesson I keep needing to learn. (You do know we teach what we most need to learn, don’t you?)
Here are four elusive pairs I’d like to do a better job at saying No and Yes to, and the four experiments I’m going to start to see if I can move in the right direction.
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