Get Used To It

David Brooks of The New York Times comes up with very interesting insight into leadership topics. In his April 9, 2010 column entitled The Humble Hound, he writes:

. . . . spends more time seeing and analyzing. Analytic skills differ modestly from person to person, but perceptual skills vary enormously. Anybody can analyze, but the valuable people can pick out the impermanent but critical elements of a moment or effectively grasp a context. This sort of perception takes modesty; strong personalities distort the information held around them. This sort of understanding also takes patience. As the Japanese say, don't just study a topic. Get used to it. Live in it for a while.