If you go up to the rooftop of a skyscraper, you can see the whole town at a glance; if you climb up a high mountain, you can see the whole city at a look; if you fly up to the sky by plane, the vast world will be seen as a land of pigmies. If you soar up higher and see the earth from space, it looks like a marble.
If you broaden your view, your thoughts will change. Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space said after seeing the earth in space:
“I realized that the earth is too small for us to argue with each other.”
He came to have a different perspective on the struggles and conflicts that take place on the earth. The change in values, while looking at the whole from such a high place or an open field, is called the overview effect.
It is easy to misunderstand if you just look at what’s right before you. Sometimes, you need to step back and see the whole thing. If you broaden your views and look left and right, up and down, you will surely find something you haven’t seen before.