If you’ve ever had an energizing conversation that left you feeling encouraged, motivated, a little more in touch with your best self, I’d like to suggest that you didn’t have a one-off, isolated experience, you tasted a possible future.

Our minds are relentlessly tied the available data: 11 bits of data per second taken in through our senses, our past experiences stored deep in our neurology. The human imagination only works with the material it’s been given. If there’s something your wildest dreams can smash together to create a picture of an ideal future, then it is, by definition, possible.

If that revitalizing conversation can happen once, then it’s possible that it can happen again. If it can happen twice, now we’re delightfully close to a pattern, and that’s something we can model.

Nothing short of our own imaginations is stopping us from creating conditions that grow these encounters in the soil of our present reality. All we need are leaders, with or without a title, to plant the seeds of their own choices.

We are because I am.