Early this morning, I had the opportunity to observe a friend's television work. While there were familiar parts to what she did, I walked away
with a whole new set of perspectives, and an accompanying set of
questions.
As I recounted to some of the people I met all the places I'd been in my career, it
almost sounded odd that I was observing. We tend to think of observing being
for people just starting out, and I am certainly not that. But as I
learned today, observing something new is not--well, shouldn't be--just
for the newbies among us. No matter how much we know, we can always
learn a little more. No matter how many places we've worked, we can gain
insight from just one more. It's not just about new technology (though
there was plenty of that). It's about seeing from a different vantage
point, about looking in different ways. What I would have learned from
observing the same place two years ago would not have been the same as
what I learned today, because I'm not the same.
It's never too late to see a little more, ask another question, learn
things we don't know. And whether we are doing, or just observing, there's
always a new opportunity to discover things from a different angle. It really
is never too late.
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