The view from above shrinks the ego without making your life meaningless.

Zoom out far enough to see the event in proportion, then return to the responsibility still in front of you.

Change scale

Picture the room, the street, the city, the country and the planet. Your problem remains real, but it is no longer the entire field of view.

Perspective is not dismissal

“This is small in the universe” does not mean “this does not matter.” It means the event can matter without becoming everything.

Come back down

The exercise ends with action: what is the decent, useful thing to do at human scale now?