{"id":270,"date":"2011-11-19T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2011-11-19T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T11:00:51","slug":"the-other-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/the-other-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PerspectiveHave you ever thought about what the other person is thinking?\u00a0 Even if they are being hateful what might be going on in their lives?<\/p>\n

When someone cuts me off in traffic my first reaction is to get agitated.\u00a0 Then I calm down and often the way I do this is to think to myself that I don’t know what is going on with that person and maybe it was an honest mistake.\u00a0 When we have knee jerk reactions we tend to do or say things that we don’t mean or, at least, don’t mean them to be as hateful as we said them.<\/p>\n

When someone pisses you off do you stop to think about what they are going through?\u00a0 Do you try and look at it from their perspective?<\/p>\n

Each of us are individuals with our own thoughts and minds and three of us looking at a picture might perceive three different things.\u00a0 If you look at the picture to the left you might see something totally different than me.\u00a0 Let’s say three people are looking at it and these are their perspectives:<\/p>\n

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  1. A quiet street.<\/li>\n
  2. A nice shot of San Francisco with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.<\/li>\n
  3. A picture of a building.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All three people have legitimate perspectives.\u00a0 It does look like a quite street (maybe it is early morning and the sun just rose.\u00a0 You can see a bridge in the background which may very well be the Golden Gate leading you to believe this is in San Francisco.\u00a0 And the brown building on the right tends to stand out a little so maybe that really is what this picture is of.<\/p>\n

    However, all three would be wrong.<\/p>\n

    This is a picture I took at Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World.\u00a0 This was a backlot like they shoot movies on.\u00a0 Those buildings are fake and the sky and buildings in the background are plastered on a wall.<\/p>\n

    This is simply a rather long explanation to say when someone does something you don’t like, don’t agree with, or what have you take a moment and try and see their perspective on the matter.\u00a0 You still do not have to agree but looking at it from both sides can help you understand where the person is coming from and in matters where a decision has to be made can help to make one that satisfies all parties involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have you ever thought about what the other person is thinking?\u00a0 Even if they are being hateful what might be going on in their lives? When someone cuts me off in traffic my first reaction is to get agitated.\u00a0 Then I calm down and often the way I do this is to think to myself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[165,223,436,441],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-coaching","category-people","tag-different","tag-friends","tag-people-2","tag-perspective","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Perspective.jpg?fit=648%2C484&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qxKv-4m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}