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Has it ever happened to you that, while you were worrying about a problem or a challenge that seemed unsurmountable, suddenly something else happened that completely changed your perspective and made you realize it wasn\u00b4t that bad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes I remember the beginning of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy<\/em>, a book of mostly nonsensical humour that I read many years ago (thanks Hern\u00e1n for lending it to me), and of which I don\u00b4t remember much, except for a couple of details I thought were full of genius geeky wisdom\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story begins with the main character arriving one day at his house, only to discover it\u00b4s about to be demolished to build a new highway. Apparently, a notice sign had been put up a few weeks before, but he hadn\u00b4t seen it, and as you can imagine, he gets very nervous; he starts shouting at the construction workers, trying with all his might to save his house from getting destroyed... But as it turns out, it doesn\u00b4t really matter, because then he finds out that the whole planet Earth is about to be destroyed, in order to build a new intergalactic highway (and there was also a warning sign that nobody had read!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How often do we get obsessed with a specific thing as if our life depended on it, and it doesn\u00b4t occur to us to take a step back, change the way we look at it, and that way get to see the big picture?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another good example, this time from real life, was the beginning of the pandemic: many of our worries from before March 2020 suddenly disappeared, as we realized that what was truly important at that time was being healthy and safe, and everything else was an additional luxury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I\u00b4m not saying that our previous worries were not valid, on the contrary: every single thing that happens to us generates certain thoughts and feelings, sometimes alongside physical symptoms, that we should process; we should pay attention and give them their space, because they\u00b4re here to tell us something, to deliver a warning, or maybe a teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I\u00b4m saying is that the importance of things is relative, and when we don\u00b4t have something big to worry about... Sometimes our tendency is to worry about something small as if it were big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or sometimes we\u00b4re so deeply involved in a specific situation that we find it difficult to see it clearly, and as the saying goes, \"we can\u00b4t see the forest for the trees\". That\u00b4s when we can benefit most from seeking a different perspective, and a variety of techniques can help us with that, either working individually or with help from a friend, or a professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, when we\u00b4re stuck trying to make a decision for fear of choosing wrong, it may be useful to remind ourselves that in this life, the probabilities of a decision of ours causing irreversible and irreparable damage are very slim. In the majority of cases, regardless of the outcome being \"good\" or \"bad\", the consequences are perfectly tolerable, so we can afford to decide, take action, and above all, learn from our results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, I\u00b4m writing \"good\" or \"bad\" with quotation marks because as we already know, everything is relative... Except in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy<\/em>, where they were able to find the ultimate specific answer to the Big Question on Life, the Universe, and Everything \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00bfTe ha pasado alguna vez que, cuando estabas d\u00e1ndole vueltas a un problema o dificultad que se te hac\u00eda un mundo, de pronto apareci\u00f3 otra cosa que te cambi\u00f3 totalmente la perspectiva, y te diste cuenta de que no era para tanto? A veces me acuerdo del principio de la gu\u00eda del autoestopista gal\u00e1ctico, que … Continue reading Perspective<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3116429,"featured_media":1964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"BinaryWords - Perspectiva \/ Perspective","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"\u00bfY si lo miraras desde otro punto de vista? \/ What if you looked at it from a different point of view?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5107,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emociones","category-general","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DPtR-vH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9635,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/08\/31\/reto-de-30-dias\/","url_meta":{"origin":1965,"position":0},"title":"30-day challenge","author":"binarybea","date":"31\/08\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 opinas de los retos de 30 d\u00edas? \u00bfAlguna vez has hecho alguno? 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