Two Sides to Every Story

Are you aiming to be a good teacher? Be a student.
Are you aiming to be a good student? Be a teacher.
Isn't it ironic how the best teachers in a classroom are the students themselves? And isn't it ironic as well that the best freshmen in my faculty are the lecturers themselves?
Heads? Or Tails? How about both? Be both two sides of the same coin, my friend.




Perspectives. I'm talking to you about perspectives here.

Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis need their coaches. Are their coaches strong? Nah. They could be sent flying away with just a single punch from those monsters. So why do they still need coaches? Perspectives.

What does it take to be a good debater? Be your enemy. When you're in the government, think like an opposition. When you're in the opposition, think like the government. Once again, perspectives, my friend.

There was a meaning to how Tsubasa Ozora got placed as a midfielder-- and how he aced and triumphed his matches. It was the position which grants full access to the perspective needed when playing football. Gave him the ability to see and get the big picture of the whole football field as well as the course of the game. Granted him objectivity and an idea of the progress of the match-- what was going on.

Sometimes, life blinds us into doing what we have always done over and over again. Puts us in the comfort zone, creating the comfort zone bias. We become too attached to the head while forgetting that there's also the tail side of this coin.
Those boxing coaches? What do they do? They are able to see the movements of those boxers under their tutelage with objectivity. Covering each and every nook of movements, they explain where the boxers went wrong.
Because, sometimes, you just need eyes. From another point. To fix your life. Your views. Of life.
How can the adjudicators in a debate chamber almost always-- if not always-- magically become the brightest person ever? It's because they saw both sides of the story. Both points of view in the argument. Gave them the objectivity.
Perspective, my friend.
Remember, YOUR BIGGEST ENEMY IS YOUR OWN DAMN SELF. It was not just some pep talk with sweet words when Yugi Mutou said that a duelist's biggest enemy was his own cards. Nor was it when Kurosaki Ichigo said that his biggest enemy was the power of his Hollow within. Your ego. Your strength. Your might. Your intelligence. Your-- ...pride.



Ladies and gentlemen, I present you : the power of perspectives. a debater (without perspectives) will be blinded by his own arguments, tricked into believing what he thinks as being the rightest one, and thus, overwhelmed by his opponents' clarifications, and lose the debate in the end.

Are you aiming to be a good teacher? Be a student. By putting yourself in the students' shoes, you know what they think. You know what they want. You know what makes them bored. You know what sparks their interest. You will know. How. To. Teach. Even better than before.

Are you aiming to be a good student? Be a teacher. Act as if you're paid. Behave like you're going to get fired the very next day if you fail to deliver the next chapter tomorrow. There you go. There's your motivation to understand your next unit. There's what you need to make sure that you are able to explain the very next lesson with ease and thorough understanding.



Ladies and gentlemen, a little perspective is all you need. To be a better person.