where are you coming from?

one of the most important details on every human experience is this:

where are you coming from?

i'm not talking here about a physical location ... but there's that too;
and i'm not talking about past experience ... althow there's a lot of that too!

for the purpose of me being able to express where i'm coming from with this, let's call where someone's coming from, a place.


wether it's a place of compromises or a place of fear or intergity or trust or humor, we'll still call it a place.



it's like this:
sometimes, you're as prepaired as everybody else for something ... say ... professionally. you went through all that training, experience, courses, practice or ... whatever else!

and you know how to do something, and you do it well (along with everybody else who's doing it well). and that is not enough to tell you of your current experience.

because (for example) in my last working place i was earning half as much as my brother did.

yes, working in the same field.

now, one could argue that we were working at different companies, and it's true;

but that's not it

because if i'd have gone to an interview at his company, i'd have been offered a smaller salary than his; and i have more experience.

that is something depending on where we were both coming from - at an interview. and that's what i'm talking about.


it's easy: he was coming from a place of self-confidence while i was coming from a place of

can you hire me and give me money, because i don't know how good i am

that's all there is to it


let's take anther shoot at this:
one of the relatively new hypes on the net is that of virtual communities. you have lots of them.

and were you to create one more, it might just be one more; you get 10 users in it, who see nothing's ever happening there, and abandon the comunity. or, you make it work, (by ... i don't know ... magik?) and make it the next big thing;

like google did.


and it all depends on where you're coming from!


so,

where are you coming from?