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A Point of View Can Become a Survival Project
A point of view lets us see from somewhere. Trouble begins when preserving the view becomes more important than examining what it reveals.
We may ignore contrary evidence, turn every objection into support, select only confirming examples, or treat disagreement as disrespect. Those are things we do, often without noticing. They can happen to any of us.
A perspective is not the enemy. We need perspectives in order to act. The question is whether we can still examine this one when new information arrives.
When changing our mind begins to feel like losing ourselves, a point of view has become a survival project. That is precisely when looking again becomes most valuable.