You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life" - Steve Jobs (Brainy Quote 2018).
Last Summer it felt as though my friend Abbie was distancing herself from me. SHe always seemed tired, or not up for going out for a drink and event the times I convinced her to come she was reserved. She wasn't interested in any of our usual activities and after 15 years this change was really hard to process. What was it and why now?
And then...I connected the dots.
No cheese, always tired, limited appetite, no wine. My best friend was becoming a mother for the very first time.
I believe that connecting the dots is made possible by operating in open mode and not jumping to assumptions based on facts in isolation.
It is about your situational awareness and your background knowledge of the person and their behavioral patterns. Connecting the dots is all about empathy and understanding.