CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE

 

One of the easiest bits of creative advice to give and the hardest to follow is to "change your perspective."

Usually this means that the person giving the advice, who has a different perspective on the problem, can see options that the person having the problem cannot. 

But the greatest weakness in this advice is that the advice giver is suggesting a slight change in the perspective.  That is, a fine tuning of the situation.

Often what is needed is a "paradigm shift."  This means that everything has to change. It's not a matter of fiddling with the radio to find the right station; it's a matter of starting up an Internet entertainment site.  The problem is solved by a complete restructure of reality.

It means an end to the reality that conventional logic had established. 

As an example, take Charles II.