Bill Burnett

what is available to you, how can we make the most of what is, not complain about what isn't?

But I get that it's hard.

So we know you have to have more ideas to get your best ideas.

And if you get stuck on the one idea, you're going to get stuck on a corner.

So if we're going to plan the future possibilities, we got to hear from more than one of you.

Three is kind of a magic number because it really gives you some freedom.

And one of them is probably the life you're already in.

The other one is if you can't do that, what else would you do?

And the third one, the wild card, if money were no object, you know, and nobody would laugh at you, what would you do?

That's the wild card.

Well, maybe I would open the Beanie Baby store or I'd start the button shop.

Whatever the crazy thing is.

The reason we ask people to have a crazy idea

It's not because the crazy idea is a good idea.

It's because we need to train you to quiet the internal critic.

So as soon as you say, well, you know, the 54-year-old woman says, I mean, I'm thinking about going back to medical school.

I always wanted to do that.

I don't think it's too late, but my friends say I'm all crazy.

What do you think?

So her internal critic is being encouraged by all of her friends' internal critic going, well, that's crazy.