text: You're getting someone else's perspective. This gives another persons opinion on the situation. Another persons opinion almost always overrides your own because they are giving you a different thought in your mind and it makes you second guess your own thought. It's a reliable source to use when you are in a tight spot. A reliable source is something or someone that you can trust to be right and it helps get great information out of. This gives you better ideas on how to do things differently. Sometimes better ideas that others say is all you need because if you have a better idea on how to handle things differently you have a better solution. A different perspective is like good cop bad cop they look at things differently.