Building Your Perspective Advantage

This post is based on The Perspective Advantage. Read it first here.

If perspective is the advantage, how do you actually train it?

Not in theory. In real life.

Here are three simple ways to practice The Perspective Advantage this week.

1. When You Read Something New

An article. An industry update. An AI breakthrough. A market shift.

Don’t just absorb it. Translate it.

Pause and ask:
What if this applies somewhere I haven’t considered?

Opportunity often hides in transfer. The edge isn’t knowing more. It’s applying differently.

2. When Results Disappoint You

Flat sales. Missed goals. A tough outcome.

Before reacting or defending, pause.

Ask:
What if this is pointing to something I’m not seeing yet?

Perspective doesn’t ignore reality. It expands it. Often the breakthrough is in what you initially resist.

3. When You’re Coaching Someone

An employee struggling. A team member underperforming. A difficult conversation ahead.

Instead of jumping straight to correction, pause.

Ask:
What might I not be seeing from their point of view?
What if there’s more going on here?

Sometimes the fastest way to improve performance is to widen perspective first.

The Perspective Advantage isn’t built in big moments.

It’s built in small pauses.

Over time, those pauses compound.

And how you see determines what you build.

You’re one What If question away. Starting today.