A man visited a museum. He looked very gentle, but his behavior was a little weird. He was looking around in a squatting position. He would stand up every once in a while to take a break, but then he resumed the squatting position again repeatedly. The museum staff who saw him doing that thought that he was a weird person.
A few days later, a group of elementary school students came to the museum on a field trip. Seeing the teacher of the students, the museum staff thought that he looked familiar. After trying some time to remember him, he realized that it was the man who looked around the museum in a squatting position. It turned out that he was looking around the museum on the same eye level as that of the kids to make sure that everything was good for his students to look around there. Thanks to that, he was able to explain the articles on exhibition easily enough for the students to understand. Their field trip to the museum was successful.
Understanding begins from putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. If you view from another person’s perspective, you will be able to see what you couldn’t see before and feel what you couldn’t think of before.