Something for the Weekend - Weird or Just Different

Derek Sivers (musician, businessman and ex-circus clown!) gave a very short but effective presentation at TED last year and I've been meaning to share it for a while.

It's just two and a half minutes long and to me demonstrates a key point in effective communication.... understanding that people look at the world with different perspectives and with different frames of reference. The examples provided by Derek are particularly relevant as they show conflicting, but equally correct views, against our (western in this case) frames of reference.

Do check it out....

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I don't want to dissect such a short video too much but there's three key thoughts that crossed my mind when I watched it;

• Considering whether we truly search for other perspectives on the activities that we do or whether we just look for agreement.
• Whether multiple perspectives do actually provides a stronger end result?
• Whether we truly take the time to understand what people are saying and where they are coming from or just hear the words and think we understand.