As best you can, try to understand something from someone else's perspective.

• Want to understand what's happening in Russia and Ukraine? Have you considered a realist perspective in addition to your own?

• Want to better understand coffee? Have you explored the importance of processing and how it impacts flavor of specialty coffee?

• Want to understand how to get a raise? Consider developing more awareness about power and how it moves.

Beyond everything we see, there's always something more - another perspective, a philosophy, a first principles.

Seek to understand the first principles of things.

I'm doing that now. I'm finding that I see the world in a much calmer way - history repeats, humans (for the most part) are relatively simple, and there's much more to things than meet the eye.