The idea of taking on multiple perspectives can be applied to many scenarios, from making decisions as the president of a nation to running a day care. One of the most accessible perspectives for an American adult is the small business. By engaging in the perspective of other people at a business you either work at or are a customer at, you gain a certain understanding that makes you more relaxed and more pleasant. For example we can take an almost universal experience in the developed world, ordering food at a fast food restaurant.
Let’s say there is a line of customers during the lunch rush at your average fast food restaurant. The line is taking extraordinarily long because there is only one person running the register and one person
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Next in line is person B. Person B realizes that everyone in line is there for food and must be just as hungry as they are. He realizes that there are only two employees and that they are working very hard to serve as many people as they are, perhaps they have been in that situation. Person B has a greater understanding of the perspective of those around him and in turn is much calmer than person A.
This example of taking on multiple perspectives shares in Zhuangzi’s philosophy but is different from his examples. The closest example would be the story of the butcher. “A good butcher changes his chopper every year because he chips it. And average butcher changes it every month because he breaks it” (Zhuangzi, ch.3). This is demonstrating two people, doing essentially the same thing, but the way they do it makes their life more or less difficult. As the butchers gain a greater understanding of the oxen they become more proficient.
“When I first began cutting up oxen, I did not see anything but oxen. Three years later, I couldn’t see the whole ox. And now, I encounter them with spirit and don’t look with my eye … That’s why after nineteen years the blade of my chopper is still as though fresh from the grindstone.”(Zhuangzi, Ch.3)
In the restaurant example person B is a better customer than person A. In something as simple as being a customer it is safe to say that becoming irrationally upset would be analogous to
2. New perspectives- Let's face it, the business world is constantly changing and in order to be successful companies must adapt and change over time.
This paper will examine Robert C. Solomon's Emotions and Choices article, to best identify what anger is, and to what extent a rational human being is responsible for their anger. Firstly, Solomon's argument must be described. A quick summation of Solomon's argument can be found in the following four points: Emotions are judgements, emotions are chosen, emotions serve a purpose, and emotions are rational.1 To quote Solomon, he explains that “Emotions are not occurrences, and do not happen to us. They ... may be chosen like an action.”2
The South was a complete mess after the Civil War. The early part of the 20th century brought many changes for African Americans. There was a difficult challenge of helping newly free African American slaves assimilate among their white counterparts. They suffered from crop failures, economic hardships, and the early failures of Reconstruction in the south. So as result many Southern African Americans migrated to northern cities in search of employment and a chance at a better life. However, Southern African Americans migrating to northern cities quickly discovered that they were not able to enjoy the same social and economic mobility experienced by their European immigrant counterparts arriving around the same time. There were many
At St. Anne School, the lunch lines are too long, and since there is extra money in the budget, the school should invest in an army of chef and waiter monkeys. Although this is an unusual idea, it may be of some use. After a long day with possibly no breakfast, people may need to wait 15-30 minutes to get served at one of the three currently available hot lunch windows. This may not seem like a long time, but middle school students are incredibly impatient and whiny, so to one of them, it is. After the 15-30 minute wait, there are only about 15 minutes left to either eat your lunch in the cafeteria or go to a classroom to do something, such as an Accelerated Reading Test or makeup work. Also, because of the long wait, many students miss
Have you ever tried listening to everything going on at the same time at a fast food restaurant during the lunch time rush hour? Well, I did and I am going to share the results of my whirlwind encounter last week. Within my observation, I will go over the layout of the establishment in which my observation was conducted, as well as who came to the establishment, the conversations and the interactions that took place. I hope you enjoy my observation and respect my findings from this visit.
Stepping out of my first plane ride, I experience an epiphany of new culture, which seems to me as a whole new world. Buzzing around my ears are conversations in an unfamiliar language that intrigues me. It then struck me that after twenty hours of a seemingly perpetual plane ride that I finally arrived in The United States of America, a country full of new opportunities. It was this moment that I realized how diverse and big this world is. This is the story of my new life in America.
The final subject was the person I stood in line behind at the checkout. The subject was Female, Caucasian, approximately the same height, body type and age as I. She was the third person in line. I was the fourth, and the guy from the deli section was the fifth. I noticed that while people were standing in line, each person allowed the customer who was paying at the counter stand 6
Growing up in Ghana, I had heard a lot of things about the U.S. This was a country I had always wanted to visit; my prayer was answered when I got the opportunity to travel there. Arriving in a new environment came with many experiences. Adjusting with food, language and the weather was not easy. With the passage of time, however I have been able to0 adjust and fit it. This write-up therefore is to elaborate on my experiences since coming to U.S.
Studying in a foreign country is an interesting experience of an individual lifetime. One tends to learn a number of things relating to ways of life in a foreign land. Social, political and economic values and aspects are usually different from one region to another. Therefore, through studying abroad one is able to learn different issues about another society such as gender and sexuality issues, social class and race/ethnicity issues. Having come from a developing country studying in the U.S.A has been a great experience personally. This paper will attempt to provide a reflection of my personal experience on studying in the U.S by comparing the history of Angola and the U.S.
With the inability to find common grounds of perspective the sense of being able to change the world as we perceive it is halted. By matter of opinion a good correlating conception can be drawn from the story of the ancient “Tower of Bable” which was never completed due to inability to reach mutual understanding. It is impossible to make anyone understand anything from one’s own personal perspective being that it is entirely their choice. A long term sense of complacency in one’s own personal perspective can create a barrier of leaving a perspective and perception zone thus making it harder to change the world as it
Meta Description: Nurses have to maintain patients' privacy, inform them on treatment, promote their safety, motivate for recovery, and maintain self-integrity when performing duty.
An employee of a business gets the point of view of his fellow employees on a specific operation of the business.
The ethical issue to be focused on in this paper is that of global population growth and the negative impact this has on the environment, living standards for those currently living and on future generations. The current world population growth rate is 1.2% per annum (Haub and Gribble 2011: 2). This implies a steadily increasing world population with negative effects on health, food supply, water supply and quality, oceans, forests, biodiversity, climate and standards of living (Hinrichsen and Bryant 2000).
“You cannot say no to what a kid wants”, he causes a scene while a huge line of customers is waiting behind him impatiently to be served. He continued to yell and reason.
persons of all backgrounds and from all eras need to consider: truth, beauty, goodness, liberty, equality, and justice (Adler 1981).