When you see someone doing something that doesn’t make sense to you, ask yourself what the world would have to look like to you for those actions to make sense.
Thanks to Shane Parrish of Farnam Street for this “Tiny Thought“. As I was taught by coaching mentors as a tool to see to be without judgment of others and wrote about: “one more piece of information can change everything“, and Shane put it eloquently and succinctly in his thought above.
Within that earlier post, written in June 2020 as I mused about my frustration that the pandemic prevented me from travelling 5000 miles to see my sons, I included a link to the brilliant video of David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech called “This is Water”. I encourage you to read the post and follow the link to that nine-minute video.
If you have someone or something where you don’t understand the perspective someone else has, then this video may be the “one more piece of information” that can help you change your own understanding.