The Drim Manifesto

The Drim Manifesto

1. The Fact: Dramatic Improvement is always feasible - in every single situation.
2. The Key: Leverage - the more challenging the situation the greater the leverage.
3. The Problem: We can't see the leverage points or opportunities.
4. The Solution: Use universal leverage patterns as cognitive scaffolding to find the next level of leverage opportunities.

It's a never-ending feast!

1. The Fact

It doesn't matter how challenging the situation is - or how much time we have - we can always secure dramatically better outcomes and experiences than we are currently securing.

It's perfectly - unavoidably - natural to be sceptical of this claim, but it is demonstrably, unequivocally true.

There are no exceptions: every single situation can be improved dramatically - no matter how intractable it may seem.

2. The Key

Dramatic improvement arises from leverage.  Dramatic improvements can only be caused by leverage.

Truly challenging situations are challenging because they're dynamically complex - strong and complex interactions between the situation's  elements.

So the more challenging the situation (the greater the dynamic complexity) the greater the leverage - the more dramatic the potential for improvement.

3. The Problem

There is always another level of leverage – hidden, in plain hindsight, in the reality beyond the one we can currently see. The problem is that we can't see those leverage points, until we see them, because they are beyond our current capability to see - not because they aren't there.

One of the primary reasons that we can't see leverage points, is because they are counter-intuitive to the previous level of insight.  It's only when we see and truly understand them that they begin to make sense.

4. The Solution

Although unconscious incognizance prevents us from seeing the next-level leverage points themselves, it doesn't prevent us from seeing the repeating patterns that they follow.

Once we can see the patterns across the challenges we face - and the patterns across the interventions we can think of (especially the counter-intuitive ones) we can use these patterns as templates and exemplars – cognitive scaffolding – for finding the next-level leverage points.