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sketching out ideas. I can see things that other people can’t see, but I can’t physically create something. That’s where your genius kicks in, brother!
ANDREW: Thanks. That’s why you’re a visionary: because you have a vision, you see the future, so you are a futurist. I’m a “present-er”, someone who is more focused on the present, the practical, pragmatic bread-and-butter, here- and-now of today.
Now, I’m aware of the future, and I plan for it, but I am not obsessed with it. I’m more obsessed with how I can make the present better. You, on the other hand, are obsessed with the future and how to make it better. That’s the es- sence of our differences and why we see things so differently. Fortunately, the world needs both types: visionaries to create the vision, and present-ers to make it happen.
Kolbe is best understood when contextualised with the Action Cycle Learning model.
ANDREW’S REFLECTIONS
This was a very useful and meaningful exercise. The questions you asked were deep and insightful, and got me thinking long and hard about my life, where I’ve been, where I’m at now, and, most importantly, where I’m going as I head into my Victory Lap.
It’s said that life is lived forwards but can only be understood backwards, so I found it useful to look back on my life and see the common threads.
And the threads are that I love working with technology, helping people, and work- ing on a variety of different things very broadly, rather than just one or two things very deeply.
Our discussion made me realize that I could never run my own business because unlike you, I don’t have the personality or temperament to be constantly selling. Part of this mindset is my obsession with efficiency.
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