During the early stages of the pandemic, when my town was on stay-at-home orders, I started cutting my own hair. In figuring out how to do that, I read some advice from a stylist: 95 percent of what you see is from the front.

The statement prompted me to think of how this is true in a more general sense. We mostly see one angle. One perspective.

How valuable, then, are those who can help us to see what we cannot see on our own? Those who prompt us to turn our head a few degrees? Those who see our blind spots?

When we’re open to listening and learning from others, we get a much better perspective of the world as it is — not just what we see from the front.