Picture-ists

[Starting & Finishing - II]

I’ve met a lot of visionaries. They can “see" the future. Having vision is important, but seeing a general, wide angle picture of where this is all going doesn’t necessarily help us get there.

We need specificity.
We need detail.
We need, at the very least, a picture.

That’s why we need more picture-ists, not visionaries.

To get started in the right direction, toward the future we desire to build, we don’t need a general sense of the landscape . . . we need individuals that can picture what their end-point is, what their unique dream will consist of.

Forget how to get started (for now). Draw me a detailed picture of your thing.

Pause.

Before telling me in big, sweeping terms how you’re going to be a part of this or that culture-shifting endeavor, tell me about the texture on the wall in the office, the start-up tune of the gadget in the corner, the color of the screen-printed t-shirts, or the font of the newsletter. Details!

Visions are easy to come by. Think big. Exceed expectations. A picture, however, puts us in the vision, and moves the vision from a distant dream to an immersive experience in the future.

Anyone can cast a vision from a couch, but until we begin to picture it with detail, we won’t even stand up from the one we're sitting on.