I like to listen to Good Morning Sunday on BBC Radio 2, which is the show presented by Clare Balding that discusses ethical and religious issues, not because I’m hugely religious, but because it always has interesting guests that make me think. This morning there was an interview with Jagraj Singh who is the founder of the online platform ‘Basics of Sikhs’. He talked about mankind’s responsibility to imagine the world we want and realise it. That piece was then followed by an interview with children’s author Laurence Anholt, a practicing Buddhist, who quoted Buddha as his guiding philosophy: “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
Last weekend, before seeing the new Star Wars, I introduced my son to the old Star Wars and, as a result, the philosophy of Yoda (“Do or do not. There is no try”), and the Jedi power of The Force (“This is not the droid you’re looking for”).
And the week before that I watched a(nother) documentary on Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, and was reminded of his infamous “reality distortion field”, the sheer will to bend people to his way of thinking and inspire them to achieve a result that they never thought possible (until Jobs told them it was).
So that’s quite a lot of similar (Yogi-inspired) advice making its way into my world in a relatively short period of time. All talking about how our reality is created by our actions, which is brilliant inspiration for PR people. After all, we work in an amazing profession where if we can think it, we can do it.
A load of old Barnum. 
Nice post. Reminds me of something JK Rowling said in a speech to Harvard graduates: we as humans have “the unique capacity to envision that which is not”. I penned a few words on this a couple of months ago in case you’re interested: http://amyinprovence.com/2015/07/07/living-life-with-imagination/
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