My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.
Whenever I'm in a film that's from a perspective that is dominant within western culture... I'm always trying to prove myself. When it's from a black perspective, I don't have to - they get it.
I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
I don't see things from a worm's perspective but a bird's perspective. I smile at problems.
Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.
The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.
I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.
