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@ElleGray feeling the metaphor. Also this picture wow! Talked to my 5/yo about this picture and the MMU that fellow is flying out in space.. it doesn’t get anymore disconnected and lonely than that..

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@ElleGray fun fact, that astronaut is not tethered. Bruce McCandless, I think.

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I had a boss who tried to use football analogies to convince me to work weekends unpaid.

I just gave him blank incredulous looks every time he tried to tell me fables about long-past superbowl heroes. I knew none of these men.

@ElleGray sounds like your boss is causing disassociation events in his employees .
This could be actionable against him

@ElleGray Douglas Adams:

"She would often tell her husband to have some sense of proportion, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in one day. In response to her pleas for him to find some perspective, he built the Total Perspective Vortex.

Into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she would see in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
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@ElleGray And the “helicopter view”? Blurry from grit in eyes and vibration. Massive noise and discomfort, longing to stand on solid ground and appreciate the view. (Appreciate, I did—photos prove that.)

@ElleGray Above Sagan's Pale Blue Dot.

Beautiful, haunting photo.

Space photos put everything into perspective.

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Maddening boss advice, especially if your job is to stay down in the weeds fixing problems so the Big Picture comes off as planned

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"In another billion years the sun will have warmed to the point that all the water on Earth has boiled off into space."

"Too big, Elle, focus on the middle-ground picture."

@ElleGray "Planet earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do..."

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well-played, elle. I yield back my time.

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@ElleGray Hahaha. "Big Picture" thinking is a trait I have; it's a benefit from a strategy point of view. But a liability when trying to focus, get things done, talk to people, etc.
I find it perplexing that people don't tend to think like that all the time, and I learned the hard way to be in the moment and focus on what, or who, is in front of me.

@ElleGray My annual feedback is almost always Think Big, need to use this

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Boom de yada, boom de yada

@ElleGray Whatever a boss actually says, what s/he really means is, do it my way. For me this reached peak madness when my boss insisted I mis-spell a word in a catalogue I was working on because she thought it looked better than the normal spelling.

@ElleGray ...so I'm not the only one...

@ElleGray It's a nice picture!

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Tired: "Nothing I do matters. "
Wired: "Nothing I do matters!

@ElleGray Here's my mental image in such a situation...

@ElleGray not that big. more like a big picture the size of a small picture

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Fixed it!

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It is amazing how many people have no perspective on the important things in our day to day life. Perspective leads to a much calmer day. Not always but often

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“The big picture” but smaller.

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