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“Silence is the true friend that never betrays” said Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker & educator.
Me thinks he was a Head Life Lens™.
Reflection, deep thought & analysis are the medicine that prevent jumping blindly over a cliff with hasty ill-considered actions.
Take a deep breath … and …. think.
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“Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.” ~ Loren Eiseley (1907 – 1977), U.S. anthropologist & writer.
I love the visuals in this quote.
Decidedly different = warily sniffing, tails in the air, ready to sound the alert for danger.
How do we overcome our urge to run? Our tendency to follow the herd instinct? How do we embrace what difference can teach us?
For how difference can expand & illuminate our world.
It takes a conscious, deliberate effort.
Take it from one who is married to someone decidedly different from myself, exploring difference can take us galaxies away from our own narrow world, from our assumptions.
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I spend a lot of time thinking about perspective. How do you see the world? How does it compare to how I see the same world?
Our perspective is framed by our cultures, including our gender, age, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, religious/spiritual beliefs, where we live (urban/rural), where we were born, the country we live in and so on. Often the frame is invisible, that is we don’t realize the frame we’re living in.
Our perspective is also framed by how we take in information. As a training & development specialist I spend a lot of time thinking about this too.
How do you take in information & which sources do you most trust?
First hand via direct, full on, lived experience.
And/or.
Second hand via:
How does the source affect your perspective?
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My good friend Dolly Hopkins passed the following blog post onto me about these incredible rice fields in Japan.
Beyond stunning, they are a testament to diverse & divergent ways of thinking.
The incredible attention to detail is a gift from the Carrot Life Lenses™. The patience, reflection & contemplation it takes to create such a work of art takes a Stop Life Lens™. Yet the jump in, let’s try it attitude is balanced with the Go Life Lens™, while Mountain Life Lenses™ lend the vision to create something on a grand scale.
