- It is only when we focus on people's gifts can we create a strong community. Rather than deficiencies and problems we must focus on possibilities. This is key in adopting the relational model ([[Relational vs Problem Solving Model]]) and building communities. - [[Playing to Strengths]], Creating a [[Personal Highlight Reel]] and Positive psychology are similar ideas. --- First and foremost, he asserts that community is built by focusing on people’s gifts rather than their deficiencies. In the world of community and volunteerism, deficiencies have no market value; gifts are the point. - Peter Block in [[Community]] Even the creation of a vision is part of the problem-solving mentality. A vision is something we must wait for to realize and is most often followed by an effort to make it concrete and practical. Even a vision, which is a more imaginative form of problem solving, needs to be postponed and replaced with possibility. The future is created through a declaration of what is the possibility we stand for. - Peter Block in [[Community]]