Sometimes you are too close to see a situation clearly. Sometimes you are too far away. Cultivating a practice of zooming in and out of a situation can give you a fresh perspective and help you see things that would be invisible at other zoom levels. Zoom out to gain more clarity about the big picture; the overall context. Zoom in to increase the granularity and see details that the bigger picture would obscure.
What can you see? What are you missing? Is there a way to zoom in to your situation to see more detail? Is there a way to zoom out so you can see the bigger picture?
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See also: Altitude, Map, Layer cake, Coordinates, Grid, Pain map, Gain map, Mind map, Tube map, Org chart, Decision tree, Concept map, Causal loops.