​Over the last year, I authored a series of challenges called “I Dare You.”

The “I Dare You” series is a set of increasingly challenging, but easily attainable, Dares to prod my fellow neighbors (like You) to understand how You, she, he, and I can become more engaged in creating The Ideal Life that each of us can potentially live.

Dare #25 was titled “Clean Your Glasses – Congratulate.”

In that final Dare #25, I stated, “There are emotional, spiritual, professional, familial, local, international, natural and, yes… supernatural attachments that link you with me, us with them, and everybody, everywhere on some level of inter-connectedness. Our links can cause seemingly unrelated and remote actions in one part of our world to affect the lives of people in an area geographically distant… but supernaturally close. We are never that far apart.”

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It’s been said that the race is long; but in the end, it’s only with your self.

Indeed, the greatest challenges are fought, won, and lost within. Yet most companies believe the biggest challenges are to be waged against competitors.

Without a doubt, to be the best competitor, today’s organizations must proactively seek a broad range of perspectives, outlooks, evaluations, and proposed solutions from within. Indeed, “diversity” is not only a great buzzword; it’s also a foundational strength of the world’s most successful corporations.

How else can we investigate potentially blockbuster alternatives if we can’t bring ourselves to appreciate the perspective of the proverbial devil’s advocate? Why wouldn’t the boss want to (at least) hear a broad spectrum of ideas and possible courses of action before selecting the one plan that presupposes a path toward success? Why not open the door to receiving multiple approaches to the achievement of stated goals and mission accomplishment?

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Let us now transition…
Oftentimes, it is a shift, crack, or break in our own respective lens that allows us to transition and see another person’s perspective.

Interestingly enough, this transition only occurs through the flowing of our very own tears.

Ironically, despite having a newly broken, cracked, or shifted lens, we begin to see things with much more clarity, compassion, and creativity.

This is the great irony of our “little-t truths” that we live as individuals.

But it is the Capital-T Truth – that Truth under which we ALL live collectively – that allows us to shift from independence and indifference…to interdependence and making a difference… to sympathy… and ultimately to empathy.

Through a new lens, we now have…

Empathy: to understand with compassion;

Empathy: to accept another’s truth as the Capital-T Truth;

Empathy: to not only tolerate and accept, but to actually embrace and empower.

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