Sometimes all you need to clear your head, solve a problem, or find inspiration is a change in your immediate surroundings. Other times you need to examine everything more closely, or more in depth. Perspective, or viewpoint, depends on what you see with your eyes, but it is heavily influenced by what associations and assumptions you form in your mind from a sensory experience. The two work together to decide what you think about this thing. So what you see is only part of what you need to form an assessment.
Though what you may be looking at appears a certain way, if you adjust your line of sight by a few degrees to the left or right, you get new information, and your perspective can change. If you hear someone talking about what you’re looking at, your perspective may change. Go away and come back, and again your perspective may change. A movie, an article, an interview, an interaction with someone, a book written by Tonya D. Floyd (or some other great author)–all have the power to change your perspective because of new information introduced to the brain.
A lot of times we make things harder for ourselves by keeping our viewpoint narrow, refusing admittance to new data or ways of thinking and doing things based only on our limited range of knowledge and experience. It’s no wonder making a decision is so hard. That’s like standing in one spot, staring at an object for hours, thinking we have all the answers about it. The problem is objects appear in 3-D; there are 360° of facets, plus height and width factors to consider, so some movement is required to form a proper assessment.
Get up, walk away, come back, ask some questions, turn it around, check background, do research, sleep on it, listen–do something different to get to the bottom of this thing, based on as much information as you can gather, before you think you know what to do with it. That goes for pretty much any situation in life, from interior design to choosing a college to retirement to which item you will choose at the grocery store–everything. If perception is reality, perspective is the food for your perception, and should be handled with care so as not to poison your reality, or undernourish it.
From the Mind of:
Tonya D. Floyd,
Author/Host of Signature Moves
www.tonyadfloyd.com