No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.
Dr Phil
Whenever we’re trying to forge a connection, it’s easy for us to go out imagining our pancake has only one side, the one we are interested in, and interested in promoting. That’ll get us so far in forging connections, but only so far.
When we incorporate different points of view, those differences can be mild alternative perspectives or radically alternate perspectives. It’s often easy for to think, I’ll accept the mild ones because these folk are really similar to me or they’re close to be converted to my point of view. It’s even easier to set to one side those you don’t really understand and dismiss them as “unconnectable” with no prospect of connective energy.
Yet sometimes these are exactly the people you need to go for in order to gain the different perspectives you need. What they bring is a different perspective. Wherever we stand we have a landscape set out in front of us. When we shift our position, we see the landscape with another perspective.
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