Its sad part of the world is that so many people see the worst in others. They see through their own eyes of anger, fear and limitation. We tend to see others through our own perspective and make judgements, rather than understanding the truth.
Only few human beings in this world get up every day in the morning and think how to screw someone else’s life today. Most of the mistakes people make are due to lack of awareness. So, a true leader sees the truth and analyse with other’s perspective.
I was watching an interview of Raj Thackeray in Times Now (This was in Hindi and I would have been more happy if this was in English because of the fact that both host and guest were struggling with Hindi and more ever I had a tough time in following the speed); I realised how important is thinking through other’s perspective.
Through many years I have been questioning the stand of Raj Thackeray when he says he will not allow North Indians (Read UP and Bihar) come and settle in Mumbai/Maharashtra. I always argued that what if, other states where people from Maharashtra have migrated start saying the same thing? I always felt constitution gives us right to migrate to any state and settle. I simply thought he doesn’t support anyone coming to Mumbai.
But now, I got the other perspective. What Raj argues is that he is never opposing the migration to Mumbai; in fact, he says; he never said anything against Karnataka, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh state people who migrate to Mumbai/Maharashtra; which is true. I never heard such opposition to at least Kannada people of Pune/Mumbai; where I have some contacts. They are being treated as part of the main stream and being actively involved in business and politics.
His argument is, the people from certain states migrate and they get involved in criminal activities and that is what he is opposing and he gives statistics to prove that. He proves through crime data that more than 50% crimes are being committed by certain set of people.
No, I am not defending Raj Thackeray or supporting his party or I support his thought process. But point I am making is the different perspective people might bring in to our thought process. In this above example, my thought process changed when I heard Raj’s perspective on the subject.
Point I am making is, how many times in our life we fail to understand other perspective and end up in making a mind-set which is not the truth?
How many times we failed to understand a colleague who is trying to give a true perspective about the business he/she is running and we have tried to pull him down saying he/she is not performing?
How many times we have simply failed to understand the underlying truth because we tend to see the things in our view rather than other perspective?
Forget about, migration, Mumbai, North India migrating and the political mileage someone might be trying to gain. What I am trying bring up is a pure learning of seeing the things from other’s perspective.
Great learning ..
Only few human beings in this world get up every day in the morning and think how to screw someone else’s life today. Most of the mistakes people make are due to lack of awareness. So, a true leader sees the truth and analyse with other’s perspective.
I was watching an interview of Raj Thackeray in Times Now (This was in Hindi and I would have been more happy if this was in English because of the fact that both host and guest were struggling with Hindi and more ever I had a tough time in following the speed); I realised how important is thinking through other’s perspective.
Through many years I have been questioning the stand of Raj Thackeray when he says he will not allow North Indians (Read UP and Bihar) come and settle in Mumbai/Maharashtra. I always argued that what if, other states where people from Maharashtra have migrated start saying the same thing? I always felt constitution gives us right to migrate to any state and settle. I simply thought he doesn’t support anyone coming to Mumbai.
But now, I got the other perspective. What Raj argues is that he is never opposing the migration to Mumbai; in fact, he says; he never said anything against Karnataka, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh state people who migrate to Mumbai/Maharashtra; which is true. I never heard such opposition to at least Kannada people of Pune/Mumbai; where I have some contacts. They are being treated as part of the main stream and being actively involved in business and politics.
His argument is, the people from certain states migrate and they get involved in criminal activities and that is what he is opposing and he gives statistics to prove that. He proves through crime data that more than 50% crimes are being committed by certain set of people.
No, I am not defending Raj Thackeray or supporting his party or I support his thought process. But point I am making is the different perspective people might bring in to our thought process. In this above example, my thought process changed when I heard Raj’s perspective on the subject.
Point I am making is, how many times in our life we fail to understand other perspective and end up in making a mind-set which is not the truth?
How many times we failed to understand a colleague who is trying to give a true perspective about the business he/she is running and we have tried to pull him down saying he/she is not performing?
How many times we have simply failed to understand the underlying truth because we tend to see the things in our view rather than other perspective?
Forget about, migration, Mumbai, North India migrating and the political mileage someone might be trying to gain. What I am trying bring up is a pure learning of seeing the things from other’s perspective.
Great learning ..
2 comments:
Its really good that Raj gave atleast one interview in Hindi. People who do not understand marathi got to know his point of view.
It is vice-a-versa, and good atleast you realized.
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