{"id":4658,"date":"2012-05-28T08:26:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2012-05-11T20:48:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T00:48:56","slug":"churchills-art-of-vision-transfer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2012\/05\/churchills-art-of-vision-transfer-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Churchill’s art of vision transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Churchill during air raid warning, 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s June 1940.Englandstands alone against the Nazi horde that has overrunWestern Europe, and Hitler looks invincible. Churchill, Prime Minister for just one month, speaks to the people and warns them of the stakes. If the British people fail to resist Hitler, the world will be plunged \u201cinto the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.\u201d<\/p>\n

But defeatism is everywhere. It has rotted the British establishment, and keepsAmericaon the sidelines. How can Churchill transfer the vision of possible victory against terrible odds? He delivers his most famous sentence: \u201cLet us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, \u2018This was their finest hour.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

These words seized the imagination of a people. They transferred moral courage and confidence. Let\u2019s notice two distinctive elements in Churchill\u2019s vision transfer that helped it to take root in the minds of many.<\/p>\n

The first is the time shift<\/em>. He carries his listeners with him into the far future, beyond current dangers into a time where everything has long been resolved. He persuades his audience that victory over Hitler is not only inevitable, but was won long ago – so brilliantly that anything that has followed looks like an anti-climax.<\/p>\n

Then there is the shift to the witness perspective.<\/em> He stirs us to do our duty now (\u2018brace ourselves<\/em> to our <\/em>duties\u201d). But at the same time he lifts us, with his words, to a place above, a place of eagles. We look down on our current struggles from a higher level. The bigger self looks down on the smaller self, and says with admiration, \u201cThis was their <\/em>finest hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Churchill brings his audience inside his tremendous imagination, where the war is already won.<\/p>\n

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We can learn from Churchill how to transfer a vision to someone in need of a vision.\u00a0 Let\u2019s review the two key elements.<\/p>\n

First, we take ourselves \u2013 and then others \u2013 through the power of imagination to a future in which an issue or conflict has already been successfully resolved. We build a happy future we can believe in, and that imagined future gives us traction to get beyond current difficulties.<\/p>\n

Second, we inspire those for whom we are spreading a vision to rise above the current worries, and look at everything from a bigger perspective. We invite them to inhabit the Big Story, not the old history and the thousand reasons why success is impossible.<\/p>\n

We give them a bigger dream, and invite them to live that dream, and bring the world with them.<\/p>\n

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Adapted from Robert Moss, The Three \u201cOnly\u201d Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination<\/a> <\/em>published by\u00a0New World Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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