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A perspective is a way of looking at something. This tends to be strongly motivated by your situation and experience with regards to a topic. Perspective is also influenced by modes of thinking such as optimism and pessimism. The following are common types of perspective followed by a few hypothetical examples.
Agenda
Attitudes
Beliefs
Biases
Big Picture Thinking
Business (e.g. owner of a small business)
Character
Cold Logic (failure to consider human factors in your thinking)
Community
Creative Thinking
Culture
Detail-Oriented Thinking
Direct Experience
Education
Emotional Thinking
Empathy
Ethnicity
Gender
Idealism
Identity
Ideology
Imaginative Thinking
Industry
Knowledge
Life Experience
Lifestyle
Memberships
Memory & Nostalgia
Mood
Motivations
Nationality
Norms
Open-Minded Thinking
Opinions
Optimism
Personal Experience
Personality
Pessimism
Philosophy
Politics
Profession
Rational Thinking
Realism
Relationships
Religion
Roles & Responsibilities
Scepticism
Sense of Humor
Social Context
Socioeconomic Class
Subculture
Super Culture
Talent
Time & Place
Values
World View

Agenda

A salesperson who wants to close a deal has an extremely positive view of their product.

Big Picture Thinking

A student who was focused on a particular standardized test takes a step back to look at what they really want from life.

Business

A small business person is against a government imposed shutdown of their industry.

Community

A person who lives on a street opposes the construction of a mental health facility on that street.

Detail-Oriented Thinking

A student who wants to pass a standardized test looks at a large number of practice problems to make sure they have mastered every ability or knowledge area covered by the test.

Idealism

A student who wants to pass a test assumes that all it will take is some confidence in themselves.

Life Experience

An investor gets a bad feeling about a company's management based on previous experiences with firms with similar patterns of behavior that produced poor results.

Lifestyle

A parent who wants to spend more time with their kids and to get more done at home is in favor of work from home policies.

Nationality

A Canadian intensely wants a Canadian hockey team to win in an international competition.

Personality

A reserved person who tends to have a positive view of shy people like them.

Profession

A software engineer advocates for improving the architecture of a software application where other stakeholders prioritize functionality and time to market.

Philosophy

A stoic individual views problems with a sense that they might be opportunity to forge personal strengths.

Politics

A politician is hostile to any idea they perceive as originating with the opposition.

Relationships

A manager who is considering hiring you is friends with members of your family and is strongly motivated to see you in a positive light.

Roles & Responsibilities

A manager who is responsible for safety on a job site pushes management to change a dangerous work practice.

Talent

An employee who is good at singing votes for karaoke for the next company team building event.

Time & Place

Americans in the 1880s viewed the people and events of their time from the perspective of that time and place. It may be impossible for a modern observer to fully understand this perspective.

Values

A voter who values stability votes against a party they view as pushing for radical change.
Overview: Perspective
Type
Definition (1)
A way of looking at something.
Definition (2)
The position, distance and angle of a viewer with respect to an object.
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