Dealing with others-Marcel Proust once said that the only…
Dealing with others-Marcel Proust once said that the only true voyage of Discovery would be to behold the universe through the eyes of another person.
— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
In the book
There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth, and what really happened. The trick is to get off your own side long enough to see the others: solicit the other person's point of view before you decide you have the facts, and ask yourself, plainly, what is another way I could view this, and how would someone else see it? As Proust said, the only true voyage of discovery is not to seek new landscapes but to see with new eyes. Churchill caught the whole instrument in one line: the pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, and the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. — The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)