What is shifting perspective

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I found this article particularly helpful. I have shifted my perspective about exercising as well. If it were just me having to exercise, I think I would stay home and lie on the sofa. But I have a little dog who tends to be on the chubby side and I know and see how walking helps her. She really enjoys the walks and it gives me joy to see her happy. So out we go, two or three times a day, every day, and we're both happy.

Great post! Your story illustrates just what the column was about. It also speaks to another problem I will write about soon - motor initiation getting up off of the sofa. Give your walking partner a hug from Dr. At last , after two years of severe pain with exercise , it has been noted that the same pain is felt by another Parkinson's person. Change perspective has been in effect for 7 months and my second replacement hip is coming up in the next month.

How did you apply the "change in perspective"? The details might be helpful to other readers. Thanks for the post. Shifting perspective has certainly worked for me with regard to exercising! I have always hated the thought of exercising, but once I was diagnosed and read that T'ai Chi could help with balance, I signed up for a class at my local hospital.

I love them all! I have met wonderful people who have become friends and I have a lot of fun at each class, so I make a point of not missing any session, and I can definitely feel the difference physically, mentally, and emotionally.

I credit these classes with the slowness of my PD progression and in fact improvements in many areas. I love the Tai Chi philosophy and have read good research on how helpful it is for PD folks.

Your post illustrates the main idea of the column very nicely. Thank you! One of the things I do to change my perspective is to not allow myself the option to "not" exercise. I view exercise as "my medicine" and as important to my recovery as my medication. I must confess that I love to exercise and have been active for 35 years pre diagnosis.

I'm with you Bob! Then write a paragraph about what the other person might be thinking or feeling. From page 35 in Inquire High School. The State Standards provide a way to evaluate your students' performance.

You are here Home Minilessons Bookmark Sign up or login to use the bookmarking feature. Based on a work at k Teacher Support: Click to find out more about this resource. Answer Key: Answers will vary. S o prevalent are relationship troubles that most of us merely accept them as the way things are. What would happen, the columnist asked, to notions of personal responsibility? How could anyone ever be held accountable for anything?

After all, you can fire or sue a person, but not a relationship. Besides, he concluded, relationship troubles are simply a fact of life. I doubt many people would disagree. My relationship made me do it. Paradoxically, just the opposite happens. When people think in relational terms, they are more willing and able to take responsibility for their part in any problems or difficulties. To illustrate, this article introduces two perspectives that leaders might take to any differences, challenges, or troubles they face.

When leaders hold this perspective, their relationships grow weaker over time, and many break down altogether. Less common is what I call the relational perspective, based on the assumptions that different people will see different things, that solid common ground can only be found after exploring basic differences, and that the strength of a relationship will determine how well and how quickly people can put their differences to work.

Leaders who take this perspective are able to use the heat of the moment to forge stronger relationships. This perspective rivets our attention on individuals and turns it away from what everyone is doing to contribute to outcomes no one likes. As a result, when we differ with others, or others behave in ways we find difficult, we assume they are either mad irrational, stubborn, out of control or bad corrupt, selfish. In the end, what we fail to see — or even consider — is that we are often reinforcing in others the very behavior we find difficult.

Listen in as Naughton launches the debate:. Our competitors see a very different future than the one corporate imagines for us. Naughton: —[Interrupting] Hang on a second! There is an issue, but the issue is, we were late. Many of these questions should have been tackled three years ago.

Now what? Although this could easily put Bedford in a bind either admit blame or appear dishonest , Bedford forges on, undeterred:. If only corporate would open their eyes, they would have seen all this. Bedford: —And if you look at the history of this business, we all know where blame can be placed, and it is on many heads [glares at Naughton].

This move, which reveals the hopeless nature of their debate, prompts Naughton to deny having launched it in the first place. This joint denial makes it much harder to continue placing blame, which leaves Naughton no choice: He must close down the debate. Naughton: Then let it start here [jabbing the table with his index finger]. Naughton has the last word, but he convinces no one, least of all Bedford.

These are the games we play to navigate around assumptions that make it hard to say what we think, because what we think is so problematic. If that person then also assumes that only one person or side is at fault, the best he can do is throw the blame right back at us.

Unless people seek to understand how they are both contributing to outcomes no one likes, they will be forever caught in the same paradoxical game in which the more individual responsibility is sought, the less individual responsibility is found.

What makes this notion problematic is that the heads are unnamed and the purpose is to blame, not to understand. But what if Bedford and Naughton had sought to understand how the heads of both corporate and division had contributed to results neither liked? Most people I know believe deeply in personal responsibility, recognize how self-defeating it is to blame others, and are acutely aware when others are doing it.

Indeed, in the heat of the moment, most us believe that, in this one case, the other really is to blame for our substantive impasse or our relationship troubles, and we ourselves have little choice but to act the way we do.