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I have been trying to teach context, but context is a very difficult concept: it is like looking at the sky behind the clouds.
A cloud against a blue sky is a very different cloud than against a black twirling mass of angry space...
When you have a feeling, a sensation, like a kick in the stomach, it means different things when you are pregnant, when you are psychically attacked, when the phone rings... etc. The kick is the same, the context is what changed.
Mostly people won't provide you with context of their communication: they don't think you need it: they assume you know it. But you don't, and when you don't know the context, the default context steps in.
The default context for humanity is "there is something wrong with me, with you, with it... there is something wrong here"
Against that backdrop, against that sky, in that context, anything that happens is bad news, anxiety generator, and there goes your peace of mind, and power... again.
In this quote from Roy Williams, another aspect of context is discussed: the context of your work... Read it... it's good.
"When We Don't Fly, People Die."
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