I am pretty sure most of our readers are already familiar with the parable of the six blind men who came across an elephant, an animal that none of them had encountered before.

They each touched a different part of the elephant and described what they had come across based on their limited experience.

They all had valid knowledge based on their experience, but without hearing what the other men knew, they had an incomplete view.

This story provides valuable insight into how we can approach our world, while traversing the Highway of Life.

If we only know and talk about an issue or problem or challenge from one perspective, we will not understand the whole situation, and we end up addressing it with limited knowledge.

It is important to look at topics from multiple perspectives so that we are able to see the whole picture, which better enables us to find the root cause of the problem and discover a solution that takes the needs and feelings of everyone involved into consideration.

As I see it, the brilliant work of Dr Maxwell Maltz, as exemplified in his Psycho-Cybernetics classic, is a testament to this understanding, as he drew diverse intellectual parallels  from psychology and cybernetics, on top of his own knowledge and practice of cosmetic surgery, as well as myriad observations of other experts not related to his own specialty.