“The eyes are useless when the mind is blind” — Mark Venturini. The mind keeps an eye on the body. The mind minds the vision. The mind sees what the eyes do not. What the mind’s eye sees is what it believes.

What one believes is what the mind creates. What the mind creates is what the body follows. If, this is becoming a bit overwhelming then so be it. Day in and day out we see practically all around us, leaders in the same situation, same challenge, same circumstances behaving differently and consequently getting different results. That is not attributable to luck or chance but choice.

The ability of people to find a path in the darkest of situations is attributable to the mind’s eye that chooses to find the light in the dark. Is everybody blessed with this eye? Yes, if we go by medical science, they are. Why do leaders and people not go by this choice? The answer probably is that it is not easy, not visible and not certain.

The challenge is that in today’s world of flux and complexity, visibility and certainty are endangered species. That is why the need to see the unseen.

The age-old perception test of a picture of a woman given to two people getting answers of an old lady and young lady for the same image is still valid. Practically, how many times have we seen markets that according one head of the department are too saturated to sell, while another leader is able to get a huge sales boost from the same market? This is going on all around us internally and externally.

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