Tag: understanding
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Two sides might not be enough
When thinking about important issues or situations, we’re encouraged to consider both sides. What are the pros and cons? What are the arguments for and against? And while pushing ourselves to consider different perspectives is important, it’s important for us to remember that not everything is a duality. If we naturally fall on one side…
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Talking past each other
Much of the time that we disagree, it’s not about fundamental issues. We might both be heading in the same direction, but we disagree about where we came from, or how we might best get to the next destination. When this happens we start talking past each other. Making points, but not addressing the key…
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The richness of new perspectives
The perspectives we have are distorting. They present only one side of an object, an issue or a situation. That perspective might be zoomed in, in which case we have amazing detail, but lack the clarity of the big picture. Or our perspective might be from a distance, able to see all the context, but…