When one has perspective, life itself is obvious and natural, and the surprises, even the goals that occur have a place to hang. In other words, the tree is large enough and has enough branches that things that come out of the blue have a place to sit.

If a person is fully informed, what they have is all the information available and experience available from which to form additional views. But this is information based, and change generally requires a reinterpretation of information, or the gaining of perspective.

When one has perspective, one can dance with new information without having to process it. Kevin was fully informed but didn’t have a broad enough perspective to absorb new information quickly and act on it to his own advantage. Benefit: With perspective you have confidence and power. By being fully informed, what you have is lots of information which can be used but not used fully.

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From The Distinctionary developed by Thomas J. Leonard, Linda Talley, and Coach U, Inc. Modified by LMK.

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