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Perspective
How you see the world determines how you want to talk about it.
When people say we lack a shared reality, the fact that we can live in the same world, marked by the same set of events, and have such different views of what it all means is astounding, frustrating, and just real life. This drives home a critical point: What happens in the world matters, but our interpretation of what happens in the world matters more.
That doesn’t mean we should pay any less attention to facts. It means we should pay more attention to perspectives.
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Beyond Your Ken
Scottish sailors first talked about their “ken”: how far they could see to the horizon out on the water. Then writers began to use it to refer to the range of our vision, of our knowledge or understanding. To what our mind can see, and not just our eyes.
It’s weird to do a...
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Curiosity
Ask more often: “What am I missing?” This is the doorstop to keep open possibilities from slamming into harmful assumptions.
We’re missing a lot. To keep our minds open when so much pushes them closed we’re going to have to talk with actu...
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