Humans are remarkably quick at coming up with hypotheses about how something works or how someone is going to react to something or how a series of events is going to unfold. That doesn’t always mean we are right, of course, but we are pretty good with generating our own ideas for how stuff happens. So, my hypothesis coming into this new gig 3600 miles away from old gig was pretty much established months ago when all this was just a fantasy in my head.
My basic thesis? That I can become better at my craft by learning how to do what I did over there over here, and, in the process, fill the gaps in my performance. It’s all predicated by one simple assumption: that people are people. I “get” people. Piece of cake.
Well, not really. I might have oversimplified a bit. Still, I am coming into this with a plan, and my plan is to take the things that I did well over there and put them into practice here. We’ll call it my “methodology,” although I don’t have my act together in a coherent enough manner to really call it a methodology. Well, at least not yet. That’s one of the reasons I am here.
I don’t assume that everything I’ve relied on before will be reliable here and now, but that wouldn’t have necessarily been true anyway even if I’d just taken a new job a few miles down the road. Instead, I am simply choosing to embrace what has worked for me in the past and apply that here. Then, I will tweak. Inevitably, some things will be different, but my experience in life thus far has taught me that my instincts are good and that the most important step, the first step, is to make the human connection.
And that is all this post is about: the cornerstone of any bridge that you could ever hope to build, at home or 3600 miles away, is a connection between you and the human being on the other side of the divide.
Illuminate Possibilities 