Changing Your Perspective Will Change Your Life

You are far more empowered in your life than you either realize or take advantage of, but your perspectives can hold you back.

Our perspectives are the glasses that we wear to look at the world. More often than not our life experiences and culture and, ultimately, how we translate them into beliefs become our perspectives. So, for example, my life experience with people in foreign countries when I have been traveling alone has been predominately positive. In my experience, people have been helpful and welcoming. This becomes my belief and eventually my perspective that I carry with me whenever I travel. I know that other people have had different experiences, and, as a result, their perspectives of people in foreign countries may be different. Neither perspective is good or bad, or completely correct or incorrect. They are two different pieces of the same puzzle, that when brought together bring about a clearer view of reality.

They are created through a narrow slice of our individual life experiences and are also based on our culture, family, religion, etc. It is impossible for anyone to have a truly unbiased perspective on anything because we cannot rid ourselves of our life experiences and the things that have made us “us.”

Our perspectives, therefore, are just one viewpoint of a situation, and there are likely dozens, if not hundreds of different ways to look at the exact same situation. Each is just a tiny piece of the complete picture and the truth and reality of the situation. This means that if we want to truly understand something, we will need to widen or broaden our perspective of a situation beyond our current perspective.

This isn’t as easy as it sounds. We tend to protect our perspectives by consciously or unconsciously looking for ways to validate our perspectives and beliefs. We end up reading articles that align with our perspective, talk with people who have the same perspective, or watch news channels that share the same perspectives. At the same time, we may also filter out any information that would negate…

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