I like this quote from Muhammad Ali: “Looking at life from a different perspective makes you realize that it’s not the deer that is crossing the road, rather it’s the road that is crossing the forest.”
I find it is quite a striking example of how to look at things differently, or at least how much distance we need to take to be able to look at things differently.
I find that taking a systemic view of complex situations is extremely helpful. This is an extremely important way to reach the root cause of issues.
One further step, once we have a good systemic view, is to try to go one dimension up so that we take a really all-encompassing view of the situation. This is where we can attain such viewpoints like the one of Muhammad Ali about the deer crossing the road.
Exercising about changing viewpoint and going up in terms of observation level is quite an important skill to better understand our world. Are you practicing?
