There is no single insight more useful to the end of understanding human behavior and its motives than the ability to become intimate with a perspective.

Imagine I want to be a be a fighter pilot. I want to be a fighter pilot but I don’t enroll in the navy or air force, attend flight school, do physical training, flight simulations, or training exercises in a real fighter jet. Instead I watch videos of other fighter pilots flying with great skill, buy a bomber jacket and aviator sunglasses, then take a taxi to the the port where I board an aircraft carrier and announce I’m ready to fly.