The Power of Perspectives
I recently watched this SmarterEveryDay video , where toward the end Destin talks about how he failed to see things from his collaborator's perspective, and emotionally tried to block him out, rather than seek understanding. I keep having to relearn this, the power of perspective, the power of seeing from multiple perspectives, and how experience and education can actively block efforts in that direction, especially when the retreating mind resorts to emotional tricks to further cloud the rational mind. While between jobs in early 2017, I spent 6 months volunteering full-time as an algebra tutor at a high school whose mission was to target students who were failed by other schools in the district (in both senses of the phrase) , especially those who were about to age out of the system. Many of these students had life stresses with which I had no direct experience whatsoever: Homelessness, violence, poverty, and more. Yet they kept showing up to school, despite having jo...