18 Paradigm Frob to Manipulate your Destiny by Aman V. Varma - HTML preview

THE BIG PICTURE MINDSET

Dictionary Meaning

The totality of a situation.

The totality of the situation approached objectively.

The concept

Big picture mindset is all about becoming a thinker. People now a day’s don't think at all, even if they think they are usually dwelling upon useless things in life.

The 10th mindset that I want you to develop is the big picture mindset. Let's be extremely honest with ourselves, we have seen majority of the people around us who are stuck in their small, mediocre and mundane life just because they are not able to see the big picture that the world has to offer them.

People are so busy being dogmatic and being a sheep in the herd that they have stopped questioning the reality the way it is and don't even think about thinking for themselves. Because everyone is being a sheep they think they are living "successful life" as per their big picture which in reality is extremely small and mundane.

Getting to new heights and getting self actualized as Abraham Maslow's theory of needs tell us, requires some real sense of the working of the world. Self actualization is the big picture, dumb and mediocre people won't understand it, it requires higher levels of consciousness which gives you the ability to connect the dots and see the totality of life.

We have to let go of our self-imposed limitations created by thinking small.

Why is it important to develop the big picture mindset?

To grow out of mediocrity, do epic things and truly taste the life.

There are so many areas that we are 100% unaware of in life. We need to deepen and expand the horizons of our existence. There are so many areas unexplored, so many mysteries unsolved and so much love and joy to experience. We haven’t even experienced a bit of life! Wouldn't it be a great life where you will experience and uncover unique experience every day? Life is great when there is excitement and fun. Not being able to see the big picture of life will make your life much boring with progress in time. That's not what you want, I guess?

To live epic life you need epic mindset, actions, character, dreams, experiences and code of conduct. When everything about you is epic and grand guess how your life will be? Epic and Grandiose!!

So isn't it worth to develop a big picture mindset?

How to develop big picture mindset?

1. To develop a macro perspective of life block time everyday in solitude to reflect upon the big picture. Time blocking is a concept in which you dedicate certain duration of time just to focus on one thing. For example, if you want to become a writer you would block 1 hour everyday from your time and dedicated it only to writing. If you want to develop insight into life, block an hour everyday just to ponder upon your experiences.
2. After you have blocked out the time for yourself, make sure nobody tries to disturb you. Now do this exercise. Change your perspective; look at an event from different people's point of view. Try to see the situation from multiple perspectives, the more perspectives you have the bigger will your picture be. For example, imagine how an adult & a child, a leader & follower, a successful & failure, a teacher & student, a man & woman would see the same event differently.
3. Next thing you can do is journaling. This is one of my favorite activity and ritual that I follow daily. Blocking time to journal your thoughts daily is a very powerful exercise to develop big picture thinking mindset and also it deepens the knowledge in your brain. Afterwards when you look at your journal, you will be surprised to see how all the experiences and ideas of yours are connected in this complicated existence. That's enough for you to realize what the big picture can do for you.
4. Multiply everything x100 and see how it looks! Wealth? X100 it, now how does it look? More beautiful? Dreams x100? Mind blowing! Relationships x100 standards? OMG Awesome! Car x100? Whoa!! A Bentley? Wow ;) You see the magic of thinking big? It makes existence beautiful.

You can also study Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy and various other theories that he has written to expand your bug picture thinking abilities in business.

Books recommended developing this mindset: Stephen Cope's The Great Work of Your Life, Seeing the Big Picture by Sean Carroll and Michael Port's The Think Big Manifesto.

And by now if you have started developing some of the mindsets I've introduced to in the previous chapters you will find that those mindsets will also help you to develop a big picture thinking mindset.

As I've said earlier, everything is connected; all the mindsets synchronize and affect each other in indirect ways.

"It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived" - Paul Bourget