OPV: Other People’s Views

In using the OPV the thinker tries to put themselves in the other person’s shoes in order to look at the world from that position. There are two parts to this tool; the first part involves the identification of the other people who are part of a given situation, and the second part involves getting into the “shoes” of all the other people. Doing an OPV does not mean putting into the mouths of all parties involved rational arguments of the sort one might hold oneself. But rather it means objectively trying to look at the world from their point-of-view and perhaps learning from that to add what is thought by others to one’s own point of view.

• Introduction

• PMI

• OPV
  

• CAF