The Power of Perspective: How to Find the Bright Side in Any Situation
December 28, 2022
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In the face of adversity, it’s important to stay strong and focus on what we can control.
In the face of adversity, it’s important to stay strong and focus on what we can control.
Nick Barry is a lifelong jotter of ideas, scribbler of jokes and sketcher of Dawgs. Nick’s art-form lives in a colourful, hand-drawn world where reside the iconic ‘Dragon-Dawgs’.
Welcome to the Coromind magazine’s blog. You can find our printed version everywhere from Waihi Beach up to Great Barrier Island or you can access this online version anywhere in the world! Thanks, internet.
Write just one word. Then another. Write another. Draw that line. Mark that page. Make a dot, a squiggle, an imperfect circle. So what if it’s wonky? So what if it looks more like a weird elephant’s ear? Play that chord. Sing that note. Sing another. Sing three in a row. Start something. Do it. In the words of avant-garde composer John Cage: ‘Begin anywhere.’
When looking at some of the large-scale developments in human society over the past decade, one
cannot avoid but notice a concerning toxic trend: that of hardening of stances, narrowing of
positions and the appeal to anger and fear driven by self-righteous, intolerant and entitled
perspectives that see difference as a threat to identity, sovereignty and privilege. However,
embracing and promoting difference is the source of all progress. The truth of this will sink in when
thinking about that for a while. And most importantly, tolerance and the embrace of difference is
the gift that makes freedom possible because freedom is only ever as real as the freedom to be
different that is granted to all others.
In the face of adversity, it’s important to stay strong and focus on what we can control.
Nick Barry is a lifelong jotter of ideas, scribbler of jokes and sketcher of Dawgs. Nick’s art-form lives in a colourful, hand-drawn world where reside the iconic ‘Dragon-Dawgs’.
Welcome to the Coromind magazine’s blog. You can find our printed version everywhere from Waihi Beach up to Great Barrier Island or you can access this online version anywhere in the world! Thanks, internet.
Write just one word. Then another. Write another. Draw that line. Mark that page. Make a dot, a squiggle, an imperfect circle. So what if it’s wonky? So what if it looks more like a weird elephant’s ear? Play that chord. Sing that note. Sing another. Sing three in a row. Start something. Do it. In the words of avant-garde composer John Cage: ‘Begin anywhere.’
When looking at some of the large-scale developments in human society over the past decade, one
cannot avoid but notice a concerning toxic trend: that of hardening of stances, narrowing of
positions and the appeal to anger and fear driven by self-righteous, intolerant and entitled
perspectives that see difference as a threat to identity, sovereignty and privilege. However,
embracing and promoting difference is the source of all progress. The truth of this will sink in when
thinking about that for a while. And most importantly, tolerance and the embrace of difference is
the gift that makes freedom possible because freedom is only ever as real as the freedom to be
different that is granted to all others.
Coromind is a collaborative project that gives voice and a platform to the people from the Coromandel. Diversity is essential to us.