An old proverb says: “You become what you believe.”
If you have a mental picture in your mind of yourself as a grey and useless person, the chances are high that you will actually become one. If you have a picture in your mind of yourself as healthy, active, and successful friend and colleague your body and brain will steer in that direction and think and behave as a winner, rather than as a sufferer. The power and ability of thought to create visions therefore plays a decisive role in how we experience the self-fulfilling prophecy.

In another old saying from the Bible, the point is made even more clearly. It is stated there that: “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”  ( Proverbs 23,7) – For truly, the leadership philosophy basically starts with an inner and deeper understanding of what man really wants. By visualizing one’s wishes more clearly, one can experience a clearer path toward the desired goal.

From newer research we know that our two brain hemispheres
have different language and functional roles.
While logical analytical thinking activates the left hemisphere,
the activation of emotions and creative images primarily takes place in the right hemisphere.

Since visual and archetypal thinking is, among other things, connected to the brain’s limbic system, symbols can therefore become powerful tools for understanding, like “frozen” images of a tree, a flower, a mountain, etc. or as mental images of memories to which we associate experiences, feelings and fantasies.
If our tasks require unknown and hidden creativity, then in practical management this means that we must use a different approach than the one that activates our left and analytical brain hemispheres.
In this process, it is therefore important to include both an analysis and an emotional experience in order to achieve the best possible solutions on a new and unknown level.