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Chapter 6
Everyone Has a Point of View
magine that you’re wearing a heavily padded motorcycle
helmet with a face plate that protects and hides your face so
you look like something menacing from another planet. All
sight and sound get distorted inbound, as does everything you
say to others. Actually, you’re already wearing something
that distorts all incoming messages and distorts what you are
trying to communicate as well. I call it your “point of
view”—others think of it as a frame of reference or a perspec-
tive.
You do have a point of view, you know—perhaps sev-
eral, all closely linked. Are you a Republican? A Democrat?
A feminist? ...