At the risk of making our jobs utterly impossible, I want to encourage even more writers to take the plunge — because the more stories we get, the higher the quality of what ends up on the page.
Unfortunately, "stretch" goals (difficult but not impossible ones) tend to encourage short-term rather than long-term thinking, as well as risky and unethical behavior, according to Lisa D. Ordóñez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman.
The reality of his divine form was, as Bacchus's mortal mother, Semele, found to her cost, impossible to countenance: encouraged by Jupiter's jealous wife, she asks him to reveal his true self, only to be burned to a cinder.
He's seen enough to expect the impossible — or at least to encourage it — from patients who are missing limbs.
At other times, exclamations like "Wow!" or "That's impossible!" which were intended to encourage the conversation, stopped it instead.
So I deeply believe in the social value a gift paradigm might offer, and set out on this seemingly impossible journey to build tools to encourage one.
Of course, in the OneNote days, it was impossible to get past Allchin and the Office Palace guards to encourage a free OneNote player for the browser.
Founded to encourage a gift culture through a social network, Impossible draws its inspiration from Cole's Cambridge University thesis, "Impossible Utopias", published this week.
Try to encourage them to set small goals that are achievable, not attempt the impossible.
Delivery methods and the need to encourage participants to make cognitive and behavioural changes, rendered blinding of participants and clinicians impossible.
