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What is the Truth?
Not long ago, we could evaluate pretty much any “something” based on whether it was good or bad, true or false, right or wrong, or even legal or illegal. Most people could pretty much agree on such things.
As we all know, those days are long gone. Now, the answer is … well, it depends. One thing it depends on for sure is your perspective.
Each of us has gone through uniquely different experiences to get to where we are now. That is our perspective.
Life requires us to react to a lot of things each day, so we make continuous decisions, small and large, on the things we encounter that allow us to successfully navigate our days.
Perspective can be a good thing. It makes us situationally smarter and aids us in decision-making by keeping us from having to fully analyze every situation we encounter. Analyzing requires effort which requires energy, which is a limited resource for us as humans. Perspective allows us to take “necessary” shortcuts to avoid decision fatigue.
The problem with perspective comes when we over-value our own perspective and cease to analyze new information, including the perspectives of others. If we think our own perspective is valuable, why do we assume the perspective of another person is not without even investigating?
