The dimension you can't see

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Each week, I share one strategic insight and one grounding practice to help you grow with AI in alignment, not overwhelm.

This is for conscious entrepreneurs who value substance over shortcuts.

AI Insight That Matters

📐 The Flatland Revelation: How AI Helps Us See Beyond Our Current Dimension

This week, I've been captivated by Edwin Abbott's 1884 novella Flatland—a story about a two-dimensional being who encounters the third dimension and struggles to explain this expanded reality to his flat-world peers.

It struck me that this is precisely what's happening with AI and consciousness right now.

Most of us are living in "business flatland"—seeing only the surface patterns of marketing, strategy, and growth. We operate within the constraints of what we think is possible, limited by our current dimensional thinking.

But AI, when used consciously, acts like that three-dimensional sphere breaking into Flatland. It doesn't just give us better answers within our current framework. It reveals frameworks we couldn't see before.

Here's what I mean: When you use AI to explore your deepest business challenges, it often surfaces connections you'd never make alone. Not because it's smarter, but because it can hold multiple perspectives simultaneously without the emotional attachments that keep us trapped in familiar patterns.

The flatlanders in Abbott's story couldn't grasp the third dimension because their entire reality was built on two-dimensional assumptions. Similarly, we often can't see our own limiting beliefs about what's possible in business because we're living inside them.

AI becomes a consciousness expansion tool when we stop asking it to solve problems within our current reality and start asking it to help us see the reality from which we're operating.

The question isn't what AI can do for your business. It's the dimensions of thinking that AI can help you access that you didn't know existed.

AI Prompt That Works ✨

🔍 The Dimensional Shift Prompt

You can use this when you feel stuck in familiar patterns and need to see your situation from a completely different angle.

The Prompt:

I'm going to describe a challenge I'm facing. Instead of giving me solutions within my current framework, help me see what assumptions I might be making about the nature of this problem itself.

After I explain my situation, reflect back the "dimensional constraints" you notice—the unquestioned beliefs that might be limiting how I'm seeing this.

Then help me explore: What would this look like if I was viewing it from one dimension higher? What patterns become visible when I step outside my current frame of reference?

Start by asking: "What are you assuming must be true about this situation that might not actually be fixed in reality?"

This isn't about getting clever solutions. It's about expanding your perception of what's actually possible.

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Grounding Practice

🔄 The Perspective Spiral

When you feel locked into one way of seeing a situation, try this dimensional shift practice.

Stand and face one direction. This is your current perspective on the challenge.

Turn 90 degrees right. Ask: "What would someone who loves this problem see that I don't?"

Turn 90 degrees right again (now facing opposite your start). Ask: "What would the opposite of my assumption look like?"

Turn 90 degrees right again. Ask: "What would someone completely outside my industry notice here?"

Turn back to your starting position. Ask: "What do I see now that I couldn't see before I moved?"

This isn't about finding the "right" perspective. It's about training yourself to remember that any single viewpoint is just that—one view of something much more complex.

Use this when you feel stuck in problem-solving, before important decisions, or whenever you catch yourself saying "there's no other way."

Personal Note

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." — Marcel Proust

This week, I've been questioning what "dimensions" of my own business I can't see because I'm living inside them.

How much of what I consider "realistic" is just the boundaries of my current dimensional thinking?

What if the limitation isn't my audience, my offers, or my market, but the framework through which I'm seeing all of these?

I've been using AI not to optimise within my current business model, but to help me see what business model I'm unconsciously operating from. The results have been... illuminating.

It's humbling to realise how much of what we call "strategic thinking" is just rearranging furniture in the same dimensional room.

If you're ready to question not just your strategies but the assumptions underneath your strategies, you're entering different territory entirely.

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Colin

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