Giving context drives the atitude we have in every situation. Nothing is obvious. Context gives us the possibility to connect dots.
When starting new relationships, it’s important to give context of your story and to understand theirs. It makes it easier to exchange experiences.
Let’s take social movements for example. They are an inherently complex, permitting any viable analytic perspectives. Social movements are correlated to social and economic contexts. If we understand the story and context of a country, we understand some decisions and path that the country took.
Netflix book, No Rules, Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention, describes one of their values to be “lead with context”. With context you give more freedom to managers to decide with security what to do without being micromanaged.
In Tate modern in London, a exposition from Yayoi Kusama: infinity mirror rooms transports us her unique vision of endless reflections.
Kusama’s art context
When Kusama was ten years old, she began to experience vivid hallucinations which she has described as “flashes of light, auras, or dense fields of dots”. These hallucinations also included flowers that spoke to Kusama, and patterns in fabric that she stared at coming to life, multiplying, and engulfing or expunging her, a process which she has carried into her artistic career and which she calls “self-obliteration”.[17] Kusama’s art became her escape from her family and her own mind when she began to have hallucinations.
To be transparent with your thoughts and questions marks made my life smoother. Even though, it takes courage to share information that we are not comfortable with. Lot of times, we wish people could read us, why not make the path easier?