CHAPTER 6

Perspectives: Understand Your Thinker’s Insight

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking 

new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

—MARCEL PROUST

We began exploring the Big Four with the Dreamer, because closing your Performance Gap starts with knowing where you want to go. It’s a skill to know what you want, and it takes inner strength to go for it. Once you know what you want, you’re ready to bring in the analysis of your inner Thinker.

Why do that?

Because Dreamers who chase after their vision without the reasoning of the Thinker can aim for results they’ll never achieve. I heard a telling example of this when I ran a one-day seminar for real estate brokers.

The brokers complained that home sellers often want to set their ...

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