It's important to develop your own individual perspective.
- It's important to develop your own individual perspective.
- It's great to be able to absorb the perspective and insights from others to get a richer perspective.
- But if you don't have your own perspective, you become just a mush of different perspectives from many others.
- Those perspectives might be contradictory or incompatible and impossible to reconcile.
- If you adopt that mush as your own, you will be in never-ending tension.[ajd]
- You'll have adopted others' perspectives and then have to retcon reasoning for it… which might be impossible given the other things in the set.
- To synthesize requires curation, deciding which facts to attend to.
- You should listen to everyone, but you must converge and curate and distill to synthesize into your own perspective.
- If you don't you will get stuck in intellectual and emotional quicksand with no answer. Everything you try will get you more stuck.