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Learning to see things from another's perspective

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Different Perspective. One of the many ways in which our mind attempts to make life easier is to solve the first impression of the problem that it encounters. What could be different in your leadership if you chose to be more generous in your interpretations of perspectives?.

Certain kinds of ideas occur to us, but only those kinds and no others. What if the crippled man who invented the motorized cart had defined his problem as: The illustration below appears to have no meaning.

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If you continue looking at it from your initial perspective, you will see nothing. If, however, you step back from your computer and view the illustration from a distance or from an angle, you will see a message. Genius often comes from finding a new perspective that no one else has taken. When Leonardo DaVinci finished a painting, he would always look at it from a far distance to get a different perspective. By distancing yourself from the pattern, you changed your perception of it, thereby allowing yourself to see something that you could not otherwise see.

Follow Michael Michalko Follow Michael Michalko on the following media outlets to keep up to date on all interviews, exercises and published articles. October 16, Memory Test: If we do not understand a person's perspective, what is very meaningful and sensible to him may look absurd to us. But if we are going through the same situation, we may behave just like the person did, and think it is perfectly normal or the right thing to do.

So, reality is what things actually are, but a person's reality is what the person thinks and feels it is, given the circumstances.

The person's reality affects his actions. Studies in the behavioural sciences have shown that we don't see things as they are. We see things as we are, and how we are affected by the events or situation.

We make interpretations according to our beliefs and past experiences about ourselves and others. We give meanings to things in the context of the circumstances we live or find ourselves in. Once we have adopted a perspective, it is difficult to suspend or change it.

It is even harder to take another's perspective that is different from ours. This is mainly due to the human tendency called confirmatory bias. We see what we expect to see.

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We seek out and interpret information in a way that will likely confirm our perspective. So, the same decision, event, statement or picture can mean something very different to different individuals or groups. And everyone is often convinced that he or she right. Many misunderstandings could have been avoided if we had asked: If we can see things differently, from another person's perspective, we can have fewer strong disagreements and more constructive responses to contentious issues.

At the minimum, we will be more careful in what we say or do in a difficult situation to avoid escalating the negatives. Can some of the comments and positions on recent issues in Singapore benefit from more perspective-taking?

Consider the policy on the tightening of foreigner inflow, the disciplinary sanctions meted out to the staff handling the hepatitis C outbreak at the Singapore General Hospital, or the activities marking the first anniversary of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew's death. On issues such as these, can we suspend or get outside our own perspective and try to see things from another's perspective? If we can and when we do so, we may find our own perspective not as valid as we thought. Or, at least, it is not the only valid one.

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Of course, we may still hold on to our perspective for good reasons. But we are now able to address the differences better because we understand the other perspective. The first is the overconfidence that we are succeeding in seeing things from another person's perspective, especially when we honestly tried. Recall the time when our partner was displeased with our gift and doubly upset that we did not try to understand what he or she wants.

The fact is we did try to take our partner's perspective, but ended up with a mistaken one. Research has found that people are highly inaccurate when they infer what a person is thinking or feeling by observing the person's facial expressions and behaviours.

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More importantly, people are overconfident that they have managed to get the person's perspective right, as shown by their own assessment of their accuracy. The second pitfall is uncritically treating another person's perspective as valid and using it to manage the disagreement. When the perspective is based on mistaken assumptions, the consequence is often a misleading conclusion and missing the real issues. For example, a perspective on an incident may assume that a leader had access to a critical piece of information when he made a decision.

If this assumption is factually false but not corrected or questioned, the disagreements could end up with judgments about integrity when the real issue could be information flow. It is politically correct to say we respect different perspectives.

Learning to see things from another's perspective

It takes personal conviction and political courage to state the pros and cons of each perspective, especially the degree to which it is valid or invalid. In addition to avoiding overconfidence and uncritical acceptance, we can adopt three positive habits in perspective-taking. When we compare opposing perspectives, we may discover similarities.

When we find differences, we can see if their different strengths and weaknesses can compensate and complement each other. Drawing on both perspectives, a new and better perspective may emerge. Ironically, inclusivity may be most important when disagreements between perspectives are based on strong values and principles.

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