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I'm Jeff Parrott.

There are two fundamentally different views that people tend to have about a big idea.

The idea is of how they experience change or transformation in life.

We can use the analogy of a car to describe how those views play out in people's lives.

So the first perspective with the car analogy is like a person who's driving a car,

but only looking out of the rear view mirror. Now, if they're

only looking through the rear view mirror, they're going to see change and growth as significant

parts of their lives, but things that are relegated to the past. They've simply moved on

from the events that made them who they are here and now. So like a driver looking at

the rear view mirror, this person only thinks of chains and transformation as things that have

happened in the past that aren't happening anymore. The second perspective on change and growth

is like shifting your perspective from the rear view mirror to the windshield to see

what's happening now, to see what's coming in the future. In this view, change and growth and

transformation aren't simply things that happened one time in the past. There are things that are

still happening now, and we'll continue to reshape our views, our preferences,

our habits, our identities as time goes by. Now, when you think about change or transformation

or growth in your life, do you tend to look at it through the perspective of the rearview mirror,

as if it's only a reality that you can see in the past? Or do you tend to

look at it also through the perspective of the windshield, with more change and more growth

happening here in the present, but also in the future as the years go by? It's interesting

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