Solving Problems By Changing Point of View

Changing View-Point Allows For "Viewing Beyond Direct View"

Sometimes its better to change your place and move away from the direct viewing, e.g. when walking in the street. For an example if you are in a new city, which you don't know then you can either use a "map", which is a high-level representation of the "real" thing. its not the real, but only a representation, but it helps understanding things, as it gives you more overview.

Viewing From A Higher Level

A similar thing would be to use a very high point in the city, like a television-broadcast tower, where you have a higher-level-of-view (literally) and you have a similar view as you would have it from looking on a map. here the term map and reality are very close. The only problem it that you cant stay all the time at this high level experience as you want to walk in the streets (on the ground) so you can see and experience things directly and with more details. But then you loose orientation very fast, as you normaly cant look beyond the corners of streets etc.

The Distant View Is Like Using A Map

So here we comes the help of a map very handy. From the experience you made before on the tower you can have a similar experience when using a traditional map (city-map) which simulatates a view from a great distance and lets you see the relations between things and you can virtually look around the corner, as this other viewpoint allow you for view beyond direct viewing. (it's indirect viewing from a different view-point). Here direct view and virtual view are merging. As you are in reality in the streets your mind can also view "virtually" from a different view-point (literally like standing on the broadcast-tower) to the same situation. But the virtual view gives you the orientation and you are not disoriented in the street.

Using Maps For Indirect Viewing

This means this example can also be applied to other situations, where you build a map of a situation and can build a different view-point for it and you can solve a problem easily. And even more, you dont need to use much power, because the different view-point shows you the solution "directly" without working on the problem. So many problems can be solved by simply changing the view-point (the stand-point of viewing the situation). Standpoint is also a very literal word, as it on the one side means the oppinion and on the other side a "place where you stand" in relation to the situaltion. As you can see this word is so close in describing reality, that it's hard to distinguish between the "geographical" meaning and the "literal" meaning.

Changing Standpoints In Situations

In a discussion there are also different view-points and stand-points on a "subject" (in geography it would be an object?) and both parties expain the view from different directions, and sometimes can see the same thing and sometimes not. This also shows that the two people dont have to be right or wrong, they only see the situation from different locations, and nobody can tell what the "truth" is. as this is very relative, but many times the viewpoints are very similar, and so there is a common base of perception in culture and society.

Building Maps

When you get used to your surrounding, even from the detailed level of view, your mind starts building a "virtual" map of the things and creates interpretations and relations of things, as this happens, it's similar as if you would look at the situation from a higher level. So even living inside the low-level situation it's possible to create a higher level of view, simply by combining the existing pieces and creating a map. The mind does this automatically, and you can experience this as orientation, you remember what will be arround the corner, as you have a virtual representation in your mind. You can image (make an image) of what you will see. Also if you would walk around and have a sheet of paper and would make notes on it by changing the level of resolution and draw a map of the place you are, then you build a map of the situation. By minimizing which means you have to ignore details, as your mind can only understand a maximum ammount of information pieces at a time, you ignore some details but get a clear overview. With this progress you can lift yourself up to a higher level of projection of reality (of viewing) where you get new "interpretations".

Internalizing Maps

You can also use existing maps (knowledge of other people) for learning, as this can help you to change your point of view very fast. With the help of imagination you can internalize another situation, which is different from the current things you can see with your eyes directly in this moment. Reading a Book for example is very "virtual", as you have to imagine everything, the only things you get as input into your mind are black inked charakteres on paper or computer-screen, which will be comined to words and sentences and with the help of memory and understanding this is translated into a virtual image of the situation, which you can use for new ideas and understanding of things. This means you don't have to create everything with the power of you own imagination, but you can internalize ideas of other people and culture(s) and nearly everything which surrounds you. But in the way of accepting external knowledge you make it the easy way.

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Changing Standpoints In Situations

In a discussion there are also different view-points and stand-points on a "subject" (in geography it would be an object?) and both parties expain the view from different directions, and sometimes can see the same thing and sometimes not. This also shows that the two people dont have to be right or wrong, they only see the situation from different locations, and nobody can tell what the "truth" is. as this is very relative, but many times the viewpoints are very similar, and so there is a common base of perception in culture and society.

Changing Standpoints In Discussions

Using Maps for Internalizing Knowledge

Building Internatized Maps

Using Maps to Understand Things

Sometimes its better to change your place and move away from the direct viewing, as you could have it when walking in the street. For an example if you are in a new city, which you don't know then you can either use a "map", which is a high-level representation of the "real" thing. its not the real, but only a representation, but it helps understanding things, as it gives you more overview.

Example: Viewing from a Higher Level

Changing View-Point allows viewing beyond direct view

Sometimes its better to change your place and move away from the direct viewing, as you could have it when walking in the street. For an example if you are in a new city, which you don't know then you can either use a "map", which is a high-level representation of the "real" thing. its not the real, but only a representation, but it helps understanding things, as it gives you more overview. ...

Sometimes its better to change your place and move away from the direct viewing, as you could have it when walking in the street. For an example if you are in a new city, which you don't know then you can either use a "map", which is a high-level representation of the "real" thing. its not the real, but only a representation, but it helps understanding things, as it gives you more overview.