{"id":1279,"date":"2021-05-06T07:28:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T07:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2021-05-06T07:28:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T07:28:26","slug":"point-your-camera-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/point-your-camera-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Point Your Camera to the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">In fact, tape away the self-pointing lens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Change the focus from the Self and to the World, and then let the world teach you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">As writer John O&#8217;Donohue notes,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\"><q>Love begins with paying attention to others, with an act of gracious self-forgetting. This is the condition in which we grow.<\/q><br \/>\n<em>(From Anam Cara, p. 28).<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">When we take pictures of ourselves, our cognitive resources are channelled towards ourselves. The big trade-off when we become self-absorbed, we miss opportunities for what the world can teach us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">In virtual video meetings, once you&#8217;ve checked you are in the frame, it pays off to turn off the self-view. It is cognitively taxing to see yourself when you are supposed to pay attention to the other, as you would in face to face conversations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Take pictures or videos of the world outside, and&#8211;is is the important bit&#8211;pay attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Take this as a metaphor to live by. Pay attention to the people and the world outside, and the make the picture good.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[72,85,116],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-attention","tag-intentions","tag-self","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}