I love things and people that make me shift or readjust my perspective. Like crossing the street and the hand dryer.
What does a hand dryer look like to you?
Like this?
Or like this and this?
Both of them get the job done, just differently.
How does your perspective frame how you see the world?
I was listening cruising down the highway listening to a podcast (the only way I can listen to podcasts) with Bruce Philp, author of Consumer Republic, speak about ‘buy the change you seek in the world’. Cool concept. Made me pause and think.
He also talked about the concepts of mirrors and lighthouses. I don’t honestly remember the details of what he said because I was immediately off creating my own metaphor.
I got to thinking about the take on perspective.
Are you a mirror?
Or
Are you a lighthouse?
Either one is an effective communications tool. They’re just different. Very different. I say be the one you seek to change in the world.
A client called me an anchor recently. I chuckled … after I realized she didn’t mean to say she thought I was going to weigh down the conference like a ball and chain, rather she said – You’re our anchor “now when you get home what can you do with everything you just learned” presenter closing the conference.
I shared my chuckle with her and she in turn shared: I was thinking anchor like the last person on a relay race….. And I was having a conversation with someone here who has a room full of assorted furniture and she was arranging a viewing – I thought funeral and my colleague thought real estate.
What’s your view? ‘Tomatoe’ – ‘tomata’, ‘potatoe’ – ‘potata’ – let’s not call the whole thing off.
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‘nuf said. Love this picture.