Creating Context.

Definition of Context:



“The wallpaper on the walls of your life”










Your context determines how you interpret anything that comes your way. Generally speaking, it’s a pastiche of your upbringing, decisions you made in your early childhood, and from the influence of early teachers and mentors.

It’s also the environment that gets created by governments, organisations and influential individuals. They create a context that they back up powerfully with repetition, education and story telling.

You can create your own context. You can create your context based upon values and stories of your own creation. Most people don’t know this.

You can also create temporary contexts that allow you to view things in ways that your default context cannot conceive, cannot hold.

There are contexts within which you can be resourceful and there are contexts within which you are dis empowered.

If you can recognise that you are being dis empowered, it is useful to create a context for yourself where you can be resourceful. This is very useful when you are in tight situations.

Often times, when circumstances make you feel helpless, it’s only because of the context that you are looking through.

Learning to master creating contexts is a very useful skill for you.

A good place to start is by reading anything by Peter Drucker - He talks about creating business context, but this is a good way to practice creating general contexts. This link is a good place to start, being a book written by one of his students: A Class With Drucker.