Thinking From a Different Perspective

One of the goals of this course is to help facilitate your ability to look at things from multiple perspectives and consider alternative solutions.

Sometimes what you see is not what other people see.

Old Woman or Young Woman?

Native American profile or Inuit?

Duck or Rabbit?

Man playing a saxophone or a woman's face?

Six cubes or seven cubes?

Sometimes the answer is not always obvious.

Sometimes what seems like an easy solution or obvious answer does not quite work out that way upon closer examination.

Sometimes we have to think carefully before we speak.

Sometimes we have to read carefully. Sometimes we have to read a passage multiple times to really understand it.

Sometimes the big picture changes when we really focus on a specific area.

Sometimes when we look at things from a different perspective we see things we didn't see before.

How does thinking from a different perspective impact our study of different topics (i.e. Ferguson, the Middle East, etc.)?