Contextualism

Contextualism leads us a few steps closer to wisdom by opening our mind, broadening our perspective, and deepening our understanding.

Context intelligence is about understanding the whole meaning of languages and cultures, the interrelationships, and interpreting them in a cohesive way.

Contextualism implies an ability to make decisions in the context of the environment. It’s a sort of logic to keep things meaningful or relevant, Being contextual implies an ability to balance other parts of the equation to capture insight rather than conventional understanding things at content level.

Read between the lines: All intelligent things have certain complexity in it, and more often than not, they are contextual. People are complex, we all speak different languages which are also complex; even at a linguistic level, we cannot conceive a language without context. Logic was discovered through an analysis of language. True understanding requires a person's ability to grasp or comprehend information. A good ‘interpreter’ can read between the lines contextually, rather than directly translating content in a mechanical way. How deep your understanding is based on the logic, lenses, philosophy, mindset, methodology you leverage to interpret things.

Discover the inner logic: Contextual understanding digs deeper, to touch the thought processes and logical reasoning, see connections between the things, rather than isolated issues, capture insight and discover the logic behind it. From a problem-solving perspective, behind every problem is a relationship dynamic out of alignment; contextual understanding of the interconnectivity of systems and relationship dynamics are important for both identifying the real issues and solving them smoothly. In the business setting, context intelligence is about understanding the whole meaning of functional dialects and business cultures or subcultures without getting lost in translation, and perceiving business insight in a cohesive way.

Harness interdisciplinary understanding: Contextual intelligence can be developed through appreciating different viewpoints and enhancing interdisciplinary understanding. A great way to manage bias is to simply get it out in the open communication environment, and let individuals embrace their bias by sharing it with others in a non-threatening context. Balance in a given context is not a fixed point which is right, and all others are wrong, but some appropriate range in the continuum between extreme positions. A manager deals with the content of the box to gain a single-dimensional understanding; a leader works through the context across the boxes to inspire alliance and shape the new box of thinking to capture unique insight.

Contextualism leads us a few steps closer to wisdom by opening our mind, broadening our perspective, and deepening our understanding. True wisdom leads to putting more thoughts into things and searching for flaws in decisions and that widens the possibility of pursuing the better version of truth and solving tough problems radically.

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