I've was thinking about perspectives this morning.
You understand how when you're alone standing somewhere you can only see what is directly in front of you, in such a situation, everything else is out of your view so you miss a lot of things.
Even the smartest person has blind spots in ways, that's just how it is. You can't always turn your head quickly enough to catch everything that is happening all around you.
But when people come together and stand close to each other and actually look in different directions, as long as there's effective communication, each person will know what's happening at their blind spots. Working with a team is not always easy or even fun because we're very silly at times and because of our different personalities somebody can become a headache to you.
As long as you can build tolerance you'll be ok. Somebody notices something you missed, somebody sees something coming in from the side. It's like you get to put together an image of something you would not have been able to create all by yourself.
I believe this is where wisdom really begins. It would be even more accurate to say this is where we learn that we do not have to know everything by ourselves, just to stay open to what someone else is seeing.
Having the ability to combine all those angles together, you see the danger before it was there for you to see. You see opportunities you may have walked right past. You are able to make better decisions because you do not have to just rely on your guess work for things you can not see.
Your view is only one piece of a much bigger puzzle, is not as easy as it sounds when you stop and think about how we like to see our view as the whole story. Wisdom may just be placing enough value on everyone else's view that it allows you to search for the complete truth rather than just simply defend your piece of it.
