If you know you have blind spots, you can find ways to see them. But if you don't know you have blind spots, you'll keep running into the same problems.
Put differently: if you acknowledge that you have blind spots you can't see, and you keep an open mind to the possibility that others can see things better than you, the odds of making good decisions go up. (p. 254)
Acknowledging the existence of 'blind spots'...
It's an essential element for making "good decisions."
When driving, we know "blind spots" exist. We accept that what we see in the side mirror isn't everything, and we find workarounds. When changing lanes we turn our head briefly to check directly, or we install a wide-angle mirror.
We know well that without doing so, we risk colliding with another car when changing lanes.
But when making important decisions in daily life or at work, many people don't think this way. They assume they can see everything. Just like when driving, they don't consider the possibility that they have blind spots and that others might see something better.
"Open thinking" that looks for other possibilities and other viewpoints is the source of power to make good decisions.
And that begins by acknowledging the existence of "blind spots."
(Charles's normal note)
Only by admitting that blind spots exist in my own view or behavioral patterns can I meet true partners and companions, I think.
But it's not an easy task. A difficult prerequisite comes first: you have to know yourself.
For example, "Have a dream — if you have a dream, you can be happy" — that phrase has an enormous prerequisite: each person must know their own dream.
What's obvious to someone can be not at all obvious to someone else. Accepting this — isn't that also a blind spot they themselves haven't recognized?
by the way
I get the point. Only by accepting imperfection, accepting one's own gaps, can one improve..
Anyway, the analogy of the rearview mirror blind spot caught my eye, so a few lines of memo.
