Yesterday we had a pretty awesome lesson at Family Home Evening - no one probably thought I was paying attention cause i was also playing soduku but I was, cross my heart.
The presenter started out by showing us a picture of a typewriter and asking us what we thought of when we saw it.
Words like: antique, old-fashion, no spellcheck, no misktakes, the ding it made when you reached the end of the page were put out there.
He then told us what a 9 year old had said when shown a similar picture: "Cool, a keyboard and printer that doesn't need a monitor or software."
The typewriter was something so foreign to this 9 year old that he/she had a completely different take on it then those of us who, dare I say, remember when the home computer first came on the market.
He then related it to the problems we face - sometimes we just need a fresh perspective. And the easiest way to get that is not from mulling it over- and over and over and over trying to force yourself to see a different angle. It is to ask someone else for their perspective on the issue - a trusted friend or family member or maybe some random stranger if you want. And because their perspective is taken from their experiences, which can be completely different from your own, their "answer" to your problem will be something completely different from what you could come up with and may be just what you need to do.
Sometimes to change your perspective you have to change whose perspective you're viewing.
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great thought!
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