Yesterday I promised a perspective post. Here it is.
Imagine for a minute you’re dropped onto a remote island somewhere in the middle of the ocean. You don’t remember anything except falling asleep in your bed and waking up on this island. Once the initial panic wears off, what will you do? You’ll probably walk around the island until you’ve made a mental map of everything: the landscape, fresh water (if there is any), types of food sources, and verification it’s an island and not connected to mainland. Once you’ve done that you can form a game-plan.
Perspective Finding
No one’s about to kidnap us in the middle of the night and strand us on a remote island, at least I hope not. But that’s the mentality we need to have when pursuing anything. Walking around the island is opening our senses to opportunities. The opportunity to survive, subsist, or escape, are all being developed while exploring. Life is similar to a remote island, but much bigger.
In order to find our perspective in life we need to attack each situation with perspective finding. First we need to know the rules we’re playing in. Second we need to find the resources that can open-up opportunities. And last, we need to find a perspective to view our situations in. Each time we put ourselves in new places, positions, careers, circumstances, or social circles, we develop new perspectives. Stepping outside our comfort zones helps in finding perspective.
Pursue It
We all have the option to live comfortably in our little bubbles. We can shield ourselves from different cultures, ethnicities, social-circles, etc., but that isn’t going to increase our capabilities and will not increase our perspective. Instead we must step out of our comfort zones and pursue learning experiences. We need to pursue remote islands that we have no idea our surroundings.
Each time we put ourselves on a remote island we force our perspectives to be expanded. Each time they’re expanded our minds grow out comfort zones. Expertise in a field doesn’t come from constantly studying a certain subject, but mastering the ability to explore lots of subjects. Expanding our comfort zones provides us with the resources to explore new places because we’re comfortable with the old places. Pursuit of perspective is a never-ending quest of bettering ourselves.