Very few people seems to find natural to think zooming all things in and out. You'll find familiar the  zoom in and out concept in two ways:

1. passive: you watch a TV show, a documentary or movie and you see a scene getting more and more panoramic.

2. active:  you use tools like google maps or the iPhone touch screen to navigate visually.

What happens when we need a zoom out to get the point about the architecture of an idea?

We need ways to perceive the birds eye view. It's needed in order to do smarter questions. Better questioning makes us to understand where is smarter to put talents to work. It'll have impact on how we use our precious attention and focus.

Thanks to the industrial revolution inspired educative system, we are educated to stay rabidly operative. That's zoom in mode. You see details but you don't get the big picture.

The problem of "operative mode" is staying only in that mode. And it has like.. you know.. like.. one option to choose from: do stuff all day no questions asked.

That's plain wrong. We are organic. It has no sense to act mechanically. It's necessary to know why something is being made. Even when we are the ones deciding to make it.

If you make a decision with "operative mode on" that's deciding with your zoom in without checking with your zoom out. And maybe your zoom out has a valuable different opinion about your "zoom in only" decision.

It's okay for you to let this discussion to happen inside yourself until you decide better.

It's named: deliberation. From Latin delibero "I consider, weigh well"

"Zoom in only" will give you a poorer deliberation and forbids you from unleashing all your talents and passion in a focused work.

It's an efficient way to decide something for the wrong reasons.

If you have a job you can't understand deeply (zoom in) and essentially (zoom out), you are not really in it. You do it in a shallow fashion. Is not a profound part of you that will remain printed on it. So you don't have a clear trace of your part on it. Even for the non monetized credit of that work.

Not fun.

It tend to happen because our current education is only worried about making people to zoom in things. It lets totally in your hands the zoom out part of things.

Of course is a lot better to have that gap than getting indoctrinated but...

do you have plans for that emptiness?

how are you going to leave your mark here if you don't make profound stuff for people?