Coaching practices for See the Other Person S Point of View
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve built up this villain version of the other person in my head
- I replay what happened and I only ever see it from my own side
- I keep losing the same argument by pushing harder, and it’s starting to dawn on me that I’ve never once tried to actually see it from their side first
- Somewhere in this I stopped seeing a problem we both have and started seeing the other person AS the problem
- We keep talking past each other and they won’t move an inch, and I think the real block is that they don’t feel I’ve actually understood where they’re coming from
Practices that may help
- Take their perspective accurately
Build a precise model of how the situation looks from their side, not a caricature.
Tactical Empathy - Observe from multiple angles before drawing conclusions
Deliberately take different perspectives on the experience before deciding what it means.
Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice - See things from the other person’s point of view
Try honestly to see things from the other person’s angle before you argue your own.
How to Win Friends and Influence People, Made Practical - Separate the person from the problem
Treat the conflict as a problem you face together, not a contest you fight each other.
The Third Alternative, Made Practical - Lead with tactical empathy
Understand and voice the other side’s perspective before you ever advance your own.
Never Split the Difference, In Practice - Adjust for your egocentric starting point
Actively consider how your message looks from a perspective that does not share your context.
Closeness-Communication Bias - Take the fly-on-the-wall perspective
Replay a distressing event as a distant observer watching from afar, not from inside your own eyes.
Self-Distancing: Thinking Clearly About Your Own Problems - Reflect back what you heard
Mirror the speaker’s feeling and content back to them so they can hear themselves accurately.
Active Listening, Made Practical - Ask what a specific other person would do
Step into a named other’s perspective to access approaches you would not generate as yourself.
Oblique Strategies, Made Practical - Perspective rotation: inhabiting another’s view
Construct the strongest, most internally coherent version of a view that opposes your own.
Zhuangzi and the Practice of Perspective Shift
Related concerns
- See Their Point Of View
Build a precise model of how the situation looks from their side, not a caricature.
Take their perspective accurately
- Perspective Taking In Conversation
Actively consider how your message looks from a perspective that does not share your context.
Adjust for your egocentric starting point
- Keysar Perspective
Actively consider how your message looks from a perspective that does not share your context.
- Perspective Getting Vs Perspective Taking
Vividly inhabit the perspective of someone who lacks something you currently take for granted.
Take the perspective of someone without what you have
- Perspective Taking Conversation
Actively consider how your message looks from a perspective that does not share your context.
- Perspective Taking Difficult People
Build a precise model of how the situation looks from their side, not a caricature.
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