Let’s Talk About Your Perspective

What is a ‘perspective’? And how can you change it?

What is a Perspective & How Might It Change?

Changing your perspective is both easier and harder than changing your habits, physicality, or lifestyle.

It is easier because the process can happen much more quickly and simply.

It is harder because our perspectives are often quite engrained into our identity leaving us with a tendency to avoid the process.

However, with intentionality, we can force ourselves into the process that allows us to see the world differently and, therefore, change our perspective.

Let’s start with a discussion on why our perspectives are so entrenched, then we will look at a philosophy of personal worldview, and we will end with the technique and the question that makes changing our perspective possible.

Part One — Victims of Ignorance

You, as an individual human being, have access to certain knowledge.

Whether through how you were raised or through how you have experienced the world, it has led to your perspective based on what you currently know.The problem with having our perspective molded from our personal experience is that the human default becomes to act as if your experience and your knowledge is the only perspective possible.

What you see is what you know and what you know is more pragmaticallyprevalent than what you don’t know.

We are ego-centric by default and not only do our perspectives represent this, but how our perspectives define how we see everything else showcases our ego-centric tendency. The issue coalesces with the common cliche of the fish not knowing they are in water or not being able to see the forest from the trees. A perspective seems so obvious to us and yet it is often so assumed that we fail to see our perspectives in the broader context of our lives and the broader context of the world around us and its effects on our lives.

For example, if you have been told that people with blue eyes are inferior or if you have experienced that blue-eyed folk are simply less capable andirrational, then that begins to define how you see the world…