Points from the Videos about Perspective
- Seen from the moon, the earth — including all of the wars, the beauty, everything that humans have created, all the mountains and the oceans — can be hidden behind your thumb.
- A grandfather may be unable to comprehend what the grandson takes for granted.
- The ability to look at problems or issues from the next smaller scale, and the next larger scale, may facilitate more creative and appropriate solutions.
- We should remember that although in our daily lives we deal primarily with the environments defined by our own senses, we should not forget that entire universes exist out into space, as well as at the microscopic and sub-microscopic levels.
- What we see and perceive is a result of, or a function of, our cultural and linguistic upbringing. The world we each construct in our own brain shapes the way we perceive and order the world 'out there.'
- Relying on only one perspective or point of view may result in an incomplete or distorted understanding of an event, situation, or problem.
Each person carries a background of unique-to-them experiences. Each comes from unique family, societal, religious, and political cultures. Each will interpret events or situations differently. Each has different sensing abilities. Perspectives change over time, depend on context, but remain personally unique. Can you really see from another's perspective, or walk in another's shoes? Can you recognize and acknowledge how your perspective may be different from another's?
Read this perspective, "The code of our country," a column I wrote for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: I grew up playing sports in the Texas Panhandle. On my bedroom wall, I had a plaque inscribed with a then-famous Grantland Rice saying: "For when the one great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks — not that you won or lost — but how you played the game." I'd like to think I took that value to heart. In 1972, my ability to throw a football, and a decent SAT score, earned me an appointment to the Air Force Academy. On the field, "how I played the game" warranted only a two-year intercollegiate career. Off the field, I persevered to graduate. I attribute that in large part to my early-ingrained respect for how I (in the broader sense) "played the game." [more]
