One of the hardest things to do in life is to open your mind and learn to see things from other peoples’ perspectives. I know I often am so convinced that I am right about a given argument of discussion that I am wholly unable to put myself in the other person’s shoes and see from their perspective. Recently, I’ve been trying to improve my ability to give merit to the perspectives that others have and attempt to understand their unique perspective.
In the English class at Solano Community College that I am currently taking, we have been discussing online echo chambers and how people get stuck in a pattern of only listening to and believing those who they agree with. They surround themselves with countless other people who all have the exact same perspective on major issues as them. This leads to a plethora of problems as people are unable to critically think and challenge the things they see online. Being able to understand and interact with many people who each have their own individual perspectives that differs from yours is crucial. It allows us to think about issues and topics in ways we wouldn’t have necessarily thought of before. But all too often, we are so confident that our perspective is the correct one that we are unable to understand others’ perspectives.
We are only able to grow and learn and prosper if we interact positively with one another, and we simply cannot do that if we are unable to understand each other’s unique perspectives on many issues and life in general.
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