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  "description": "Stuck in our own perspective, we tend to misrepresent reality. We tend to misunderstand others motives.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-27T00:37:58.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.thinksystems.blog",
  "tags": [
    "the Universe is on our side",
    "get in touch with our still, small voice",
    "courage to be disliked",
    "not take offense (the Bait of Satan)",
    "struggle is good",
    "to safely express our emotions",
    "this new universal perspective",
    "Human Design Genie"
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  "textContent": "Stuck in our own perspective, we tend to misrepresent reality. We tend to misunderstand others motives. For instance, imagine a child who’s frustrated with their homework, begging their parents for the answer only to get some guidance and “help”. “This would be so much easier if you would just give me the answer!”, they shout. Feeling unsupported, unloved, dumb, and annoyed, they believe this is happening to them, instead of for them (Personal Perspective).\n\nIf you move your perspective to the parent, you would see how difficult it is for the parent NOT to give the child the answer. Instead, they would give a hint, or a nudge. They know that the answer isn’t what the child needs to grow, they need the journey, they need the process. To become what they must, they need to struggle towards the solution. How easy would it be for the parent to give their child the answer and to make their child \"like\" them. But they know that would only lead to dependence… (Power Perspective)\n\n### Life as Our Parent\n\nLife tests us in the same way. God, the Universe, is there, slowly, and quietly guiding us, while we yell at it. Believing it’s not loving us or supporting us, or worse…abandoned us. We wade through the trials and tribulations of life believing that it’s us against the world. Attempting to control, manipulate, and power our way through our troubles by using the tools at our disposal. But all the while, we’re not listening to the guidance, we’re not silencing ourselves or the world outside enough to even hear the natural subtle pulls or hints that our \"parent\" is attempting to communicate. Worse yet, we hear it, but assume it's useless because it isn’t the answer we’re looking for.\n\nWhat if you trusted life, the Universe, God, whatever force moves life, like a parent that was teaching you? Training you? What if you believed everything bad, the struggles, the pain, the hurt that came your way was actually good? How could those be good you ask? Maybe take a different perspective…\n\n> A farmer’s horse runs away.\n> His neighbors say, “Such bad luck.”\n> The farmer replies, “We'll see.”\n>\n> The next day, the horse returns with several wild horses.\n> The neighbors say, “What good luck!”\n> The farmer says, “We'll see..”\n>\n> His son tries to ride one of the wild horses, falls, and breaks his leg.\n> The neighbors say, “How terrible.”\n> The farmer says, “We'll see..”\n>\n> Soon after, the army comes to conscript young men for war, but the son is spared because of his injury.\n> The neighbors say, “What good luck!”\n> The farmer says, “We'll see..”\n\n### Human Design\n\nI recently got back to investigating Human Design. In this system, there's the idea of Perspective (the default way one sees the world), I had looked at it before for individuals but I had never looked at it interpersonally. How do two people, with different Perspectives act within a relationship?\n\nHuman Design has 6 Perspectives:\n\n  1. Survival\n  2. Possibility\n  3. Power\n  4. Personal\n  5. Probability\n  6. Desire\n\n\n\nWhen put together, interesting dynamics get created. For instance, if you pair a Power Perspective with a Personal perspective. The Personal Perspective always sees how this affects them, the human level. The emotions, the results, the actions, the consequences all filtered through the question, \"How does this affect me?\" In its highest form, Personal Perspective becomes empowerment through experience. In its lowest form, one can become stuck in victimization.\n\nThe Power Perspective on the other hand looks at everything through the lens of \"Who/what holds the power?\". What is influencing the pieces, what is influencing the system? It's strategic, practical, and impersonal. In its highest form, Power Perspective can give players in the system their agency and power back. In its lowest form, it seeks control, and domination.\n\nPaired together, the Personal Perspective speaks about the effects that they are experiencing, and the Power Perspective sees why those experiences are happening. In their highest state they support each other to build a relationship that has distributed power and agency created by the communicative feedback loop between the two. In its lowest state, they live out the theme of victim and dominator. The Personal Perspective in their insecurity blaming their actions and feelings on the other and staying with them out of fear, and the Power Perspective, in their insecurity being afraid of having the other leave, and manipulating them to stay by managing their feelings. The relationship in that state is happy when one feels \"loved\" and the other feels \"needed\".\n\nThis was exactly the type of dynamics I was noticing. So where does this put us? Can we change our perspective? Or is it built into the way that we operate? Do we have to keep reliving these cycles or are we able to break out of it?\n\n### Conclusion\n\nHuman Design isn't destiny, it only speaks to what comes easiest to you. It only speaks about how energy wants to move through you, and you through life. You always can do something different, see something different, but your default mode will be your design. It is a gift, and a curse. Each of these perspectives are necessary, and they each have their high and low expressions. Regardless of which lens we see through, we can choose to leave it dirty, or clean it up.\n\nHow can we clean up our lens you ask? This question touches on many of my articles. We can start by believing that the Universe is on our side, take moments out of our day to get in touch with our still, small voice. Having the courage to be disliked, and to not take offense (the Bait of Satan). We can realize that struggle is good, and learn how to safely express our emotions when they do rise up. Should we fail, hurt someone, and catch ourselves, we’d know that the only way we could have done that is from this new universal perspective. A perspective that’s not caught up in the actions and struggles of life, but connected to the curriculum of life. The life we want to learn to flow elegantly through, and through our courage, impact the world...\n\n\nInterested in learning about your Human Design Perspective? Check out Human Design Genie (an AI enabled tool to explore Human Design)",
  "title": "System #28: Perspective",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-27T00:37:58.710Z"
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