A teacher uses two paint cans and targets to show how perspective changes everything. What looks misaligned from one angle is perfectly placed from another. The lesson: step into someone else's viewpoint to understand them, and clarity about your goals makes them easier to hit.
Alright, so we're going to talk about perspective today. I have two cans of paint on the table, and behind the cans of paint are targets. So if I get down at what would be the perceived eye line of the paint, if I scoot over here, my white paint is— where am I? Wait, go with the orange. My pink paint was lined up on this one. And my white paint is lined up there. So today, pretend that the white can is my student and I am the pink can. I'm standing here with my student and I'm like, "Line up on that far target." But from where I was standing, and I could line myself up with that last target, she did not look like she was lined up at it at all. I'm like, "Huh, I don't think you're lined up." She's like, "No, no, really, I am." So what did I do? Well, I moved myself to go behind her so that I could see things from her perspective and see that she was indeed where she was standing, lined up on that far target. So what does this have to do? With anything at all. It has to do with perspective. Life is about perspective. So often we are stuck in the spot where we're at, looking at the thing that we're looking at, and not really trying hard to take a couple steps over to see where somebody else's perspective is. So I thought this is very deep. I don't know, but I, I think one of the things we need to work on is perspective. And yes, line yourself up with your targets because it's easier to shoot them that way.
