The Blog of E. Dale Nixon

“The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing them with new eyes.” -–Peter Drucker

It seems that for most of my life, I’ve either been listening to a different drummer, reading a different book, enrolled in a different school, hanging out with “different” friends… or perhaps I just enjoy looking through kaleidoscopes as much as I enjoy looking into microscopes…the point is that my natural inclination is to see things “another way.” Alternatives have always appealed to me.

The challenge for most people in our current multi-culture is seeing things from multiple-other’s points of view. But to really see anymore, you need to embrace multiple ways of thinking and alternative ways of doing everything. Sometime the most “wrong” thing or ineffective way is an idolatrous commitment to the only things or ways of understanding we already know; try to get past issues of practicality, even right and wrong, because these are often just other forms of blind self-centeredness.

If that treads offensively on your particular worldview, here’s my apology—keep in mind that it’s just a lens for seeing things within a particular interpretive context. I’ve been trying to see things differently for so long that I have to wonder if all these lenses simply skew reality and truth in intentionally prejudicial ways.