Perspective
We climb with open eyes, impervious to all danger, up the most dangerous paths, onto the roofs and towers of fantasy, and without any vertigo, as though born to climb ... We untiring wanderers, silent as death, on heights that we see not as heights but as our plains, as our safety.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, §59
Perspective is hard to get. We struggle to see the things that are closest to us. A lot of us spend our lives so enmeshed in what we are doing, thinking, and feeling, that we never really get the chance to step outside - of our situation, of ourselves - for long enough to see things from a new perspective.
I’m not talking about getting an objective perspective. I don’t think there is such a thing as objectivity - whenever you look at anything, you always see it through your own eyes.
I’m also not talking about being being more rational, less emotional. There’s a certain stupidity that goes along with some of the smartest people I know. This is the stupidity o…
