{"id":768,"date":"2015-02-01T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zoom-out.co\/?p=768"},"modified":"2025-02-02T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T12:26:00","slug":"an-introduction-to-zoom-out-and-planet-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zoom-out.co\/wp-legacy\/an-introduction-to-zoom-out-and-planet-zoom\/","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to Zoom-Out and Planet Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Finding broader and more helpful perspectives to boost wellbeing and performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this increasingly connected, collaborative, dynamic and rapidly changing world, our ability to see the bigger picture, embrace diverse perspectives, manage our emotions and see clearly is ever more valuable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoom-Out is all about finding the most helpful perspective in any given situation and is relevant to all aspects of personal life and work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To begin our journey, we\u2019ll venture to another world which you may recognise and exploit to optimise your reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planet Zoom<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A planet not too far away is home to two particular types of an inhabitant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Zoom-Ins <\/strong>and the Zoom-Outs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s meet them now\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoom-Ins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Zoom-Ins are good at focusing in on a single detail or aspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And given the choice of a positive or negative aspect or thing\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026a Zoom-In will tend to focus more on the negative due to inbuilt negativity bias<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At times, Zoom-Ins can become fixated on a narrow and unhelpful perspective.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…sometimes for days, months or years!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small thing can become blown out of proportion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it\u201d\u2014 The Focusing Illusion, Daniel Kahneman<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Zoom-Outs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Zoom-Outs are good at seeing the bigger picture \u2014 taking a broader perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cChild, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions.
Learn to see great things great and small things small.\u201d \u2014 Corrie Ten Boom<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Both Zoom-Ins and Zoom-Outs have their pros and cons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Human Perspective<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As humans, we have both the abilities of the Zoom-Ins and the Zoom-Outs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, our Zoom-In \u2018muscle\u2019 is quite strong and we too, like the Zoom-Ins, have a negativity bias that means that at times we can adopt a narrow and unhelpful perspective to the detriment of ourselves and others\u2026. in some cases for days, months or years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And furthermore, our brain can have difficulty distinguishing between \u2018real\u2019 and imagined experience. Our psychological and physiological response to an imagined threat, for example, can be as powerful as if that threat was real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI have suffered a great many misfortunes in my life, most of which never happened\u201d \u2014 Mark Twain<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In addition to responding to something imagined as \u2018real\u2019, we may derive something \u2018imagined\u2019 from what is real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We sometimes incorrectly associate physiological responses to the wrong cause, the wrong reality in some sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A special case of this being\u00a0misattribution of arousal<\/a>\u00a0where for example a person interprets a fear response as romantic arousal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with the inhabitants of planet Zoom, both zoom-in and zoom-out have their pros and cons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Zooming-In is helpful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n