Objects that we and others can verify (Objective reality) have persistence in time, distance and form. Once you set something on a table you can leave and come back and it will still be there.
Subjective reality does not persist in the same way. One can not put their love for someone on the table and come back and find it there. It is a sort of thing that does not persist. It comes into and out of existence moment by moment.
Subjective reality can impact our performance. If it seems like we can do something we are more likely to try it than if is seems like we can’t. To some it seems like learning a new language is easy and it turns out to be so for them. If math seems challenging it will likely remain so. Every situation we deal with comes with some kind of ‘seeming’ or way it occurs and how we occur for ourselves in those circumstances.
This lead us to CONTEXT. The container or box so to speak that all of this comes in. As Werner points out: “Almost no one works on the box things come in.” (see The Context Rules).
Ideas extended from: Erhard, Werner and Jensen, Michael C. and Zaffron, Steve and Echeverria, Jeronima, Course Materials for: ‘Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model’ (October 4, 2022). Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 09-038, Simon School Working Paper No. 08-03, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 08-02, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1263835