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Bending Reality: How to Make the Impossible Probable

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With Victoria’s guidance, her clients feel calm, confident and energized as they scale their multi-billion dollar companies and inspire their teams with their vision and leadership – all the while enjoying a personal life they love. I think, the way I got started is how I think a lot of clients find my work, which is they believe they’re looking for something very specific, very tactical, very strategic. It’s usually like I want to improve my leadership, or I want to improve my communication skills, or my gravitas or my presence and that’s what I was looking for when I asked around looking for a coach.

Victoria: Yes, I think the first thing is the moment you notice yourself, admiring what someone else is doing, inspired by something that someone else is doing. Probably the guard was in one of the studio control rooms, chatting to tape ops as they cleared up after the last sessions of the night. Sitting in the unknown, triggers our fight or flight response, anything that we can’t control and predict really feels unsafe from this place and so I found that the leaders who know how to sit in the unknown, navigate change are the ones who can keep their nervous systems regulated and calm and peaceful, relaxed, expansive, in the face of the unknown. Besides, we were all professional artists (or studying to be so, at least): we all had a fairly good understanding of what imagination looked like, and it wasn’t that.To cultivate your emotional intelligence because I believe that our ability to master walking with our fears, our stress and anxiety, unlock our ability to bend reality in the direction that we want. We’ve touched on it a bit, which is that I truly believe that those of us who, look over at someone and say, wow, how did they do that? And this especially applies when we’re working at or close to real-time, and we don’t have any chance to stop, think, assess, reflect. Yet somehow, of course, we do have to make it work: we do have to bridge across all of those different ‘truths’.

They look bolder, they’re bigger actions, and we’re willing to take when we’re playing small, when we’re playing not to lose, when we’re afraid of looking silly. By accessing this extraordinary ability, Victoria's clients have sold a company for 4 billion dollars, grown revenue 1,000% during a pandemic, and designed a more effective Covid vaccine.Yet when people think it is science – or that their version of it is ‘science’, anyway – that’s when we get all of those, uh, joyous fights and feuds about EA, on LinkedIn and the like. Well, maybe not… because a few years later, and entirely independently, I met up with one of the others who’d also been there. The way this manifests for me in the EA realm is the position I’ve held for decades that human collectives (as well as collectives in other species) constitute a form of life beyond the biological. What’s an event that you felt really grateful for, something that felt really good when it happened? I have an intuition that the “possession goes both ways” principle might apply, so I’m happy to live among the gifts that seem to work for me.

I few decades back used to teach dowsing [US: ‘water-witching’], which is often mislabelled as ‘paranormal-therefore-impossible’, but in practice is just a perfectly-straightforward sensemaking-decisionmaking-action loop with a few odd twists here and there. Okay, it’s probably more a commercial- or business-oriented form of magic, it’s true, but still a kind of magic nonetheless. And that’s when I realised that the whole light-fitting was gently moving, swinging round, more and more, until, yes, definitely clockwise, as if seen from above. Victoria began her career as a venture capitalist investing in the fastest growing technology startups, where she got to see first-hand what the most successful entrepreneurs did differently to win.Yet there’s a fundamental trap, known as Gooch’s Paradox, that “ things not only have to be seen to be believed, but also have to be believed to be seen“. Yet to do that, we’ll need a really good, practical, first-hand understanding of how those mythquakes work – and what we can do about them within ourselves. One of the more accessible – and certainly eye-opening, if in a carefully metaphoric sense – of the Chaos Magic texts is ‘Ramsey Dukes’, SSOTBME: again, recommended, though perhaps only if you’re willing to accept the ‘occasional forays into the overly implausible’ (as was once said about one of my own books! In a context that’s undergoing rapid, accelerating change, if we ever allow our predefined ‘explanations’ to take precedence over experience, we’re in deep trouble – because that’s when we lose the magic, and worse. The danger is that the more tightly we hold on to those past certainties, the further we drift from reality – increasing the risk that the scale of subsequent mythquakes will ramp up more than we’d be able to cope with, because Reality Department won’t bother to wait for us to catch up.

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