“The opposite of a glance…is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second,
and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.”
Caught this in a post from Chip Conley called: “How to Become a “First-Class Noticer”, in which he follows this quote with:
My patron saint of organizational theory, Abraham Maslow used the word “glimpse” to describe how we peek at our peak but often recoil almost out of a fear of success. He wrote, “We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.”
Most people glance.
How about you? Are you open to glimpsing? Catching a glimpse of your daughter’s lovely soul. Opening your aperture to notice and feel the energy of your leadership team. Maybe you could imagine your ideal life and take a glimpse at where you’ll be (and who you’ll be with) ten years from now.
A first-class noticer is mindful and patient enough to catch a glimpse long enough for their pattern-recognizing intuition to offer them the wisdom they need at that moment. Live in that place, and your presence will genuinely become a present to those who surround you.
Thank you for this Chip, and you are indeed a first-class noticer.
I aspire to be the same. I do love it when I can “catch a glimpse” when I am working with a client. Deep listening aids this, always totally focussed on what is happening for the client beneath the words, where their energy and focus is, and sometimes you catch a glimpse of something truly special. Sometimes you even see through that glimpse what their unique gift is to the world, even if they don’t yet even see it for themselves yet. Those moments are indeed amazing to notice.