Thanks to everyone who joined me for a fascinating discussion on The Tipping Point as related to the Living Into Greatness work last night.  If you missed it, please join us for our new LIG R&D series in the weeks ahead.  Class details will be posted here on the blog.

What is The Tipping Point?

In Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Tipping Point:  How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Gladwell argues that ideas and behaviors act like outbreaks of infectious disease, creating social epidemics.  The Tipping Point is the moment in an epidemic when critical mass is reached, the Boiling Point, "the straw that broke the camel's back".  When we begin to examine the social epidemics around us, we can see that little changes can make a big difference.

Wikipedia describes The Tipping Point as the dramatic moment when something unique becomes common.

How is The Tipping Point related to Living Into Greatness?

The pattern language I've created for scarcity shows that conditioned beliefs make up conditioned patterns which in turn make up the Illusion (which is the evidence of scarcity mentality).  Make sense?

In and of themselves, each of the conditioned patterns are not bad things.  For instance, the first conditioned pattern for the Illusion of Not Enough is MORE.  More is all about the need for more of something to complete you.  "I need more information before I can make a decision."  A desire to learn and educate yourself is not necessarily bad.  We can say, however, that when a need to learn more and more keeps you from doing what you already know, then it becomes a problem. 

The point at which a conditioned pattern keeps you from doing what you can do is The Tipping Point. 

Think of a teeter totter.  It's a great visual for the delicate balance between a scarcity mindset and an abundant mindset.  When our scarcity mentality becomes common, turning into evidence of the conditioned patterns in our lives, then the higher our Scarcity Quotient (SQ) tends to be.  When our abundance mentality becomes common, turning into evidence of the conscious patterns in our lives, the higher our Abundance Quotient (AQ) will be.

What does your teeter totter look like?