It describes how we are all unique and we all see the world through our own prism. The author explains how we are all influenced by the biases implanted in us by our own life journey. This is very well covered in The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. Remember - they have not yet met and they are daggers drawn. So Mr Binary gave full flow in the responding email about not wishing to work with Mr Arty. He felt insulted and saw the deal as dead. Seeing this, Mr Binary dropped into his normal zone (on or off). Mr Arty suggested (again, in the email) that Mr Binary not make assumptions about him that were wrong and that this gave him doubts about Mr Binary's ability to build an e-commerce solution. Mr Arty took offence that someone assumed he would be too busy to answer his phone - so he took it as a personal slight. Mr Binary used email to suggest Mr Arty was busy because he thought email was probably the appropriate medium with which to communicate. They needed an interpreter for the English each of them were deploying. When I looked at the language they had both been using I could see the problem. This was very disappointing because Mr A needs Mr B and vice versa. Then after a couple of weeks I was copied in to an email trail where the two guys have fallen out and are not 'speaking' to each other. Having connected them both I left them to it, feeling great that I'd put together a match made in e-commerce heaven. The photographer, let's call him Mr Arty, lives in a world of creation, where everything is in shades from white to black. Similar in build, both have a great sense of humour and both place the interests of their client first. These two have so much in common, it's uncanny. Where do you think I turned? Correct, to Mr Binary. The photographer needs an e-commerce solution for his business. I have another client that is a photographer and very artistic. He builds high-end, e-commerce solutions that deliver tons of value for his clients. That is his zone, he is very comfortable in it and brilliant at what he does. His whole world is binary - zero or one - true or false - black or white. I mean that in a good way - he will not be offended. This song came to mind when I was with a client recently and we both learned a fabulous lesson in communication. But then again, it's said that if you remember the 60's you can't have been there! Personally, I'm OK with that, because I was at school through the sixties. "We skipped a light fandango, Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor" - they don't write them like that any more. For those of us lucky enough to live through (and listen to the music of) the late 1960's, this was a classic from Procol Harum.
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