"You lay them out like this," Jason said, placing a card on the left, a card in the center and a card on the right. "You think up a question first, of course, then lay out the cards to find the answer. The card on the left represents the context, or overall view of the situation. The middle card represents the focus, the driving force or motivation, and the card on the right represents the outcome, what is actually going to happen. There's another way to read the cards, though, they can also represent past, present and future, in the same order."