Source + Means = Outcome
Gain: To get, usually as the result of your own efforts. There are a lot of ways we "gain" in life, but the common thing is that we are the ones "doing something" in order to realize that gain. Even if you consider weight gain, we are doing something to cause it - overeating, making poor eating choices, and/or exercising way too little for our body's metabolism. We can gain from saving and structures spending - living within our means, methodically putting away small sums of money into savings, etc. In the end, we gain a little wealth, nice things to wear, comfortable things within our environment, etc. Seriously thinking on this, we might think of gain as that which we accomplish ourselves - there just isn't a whole lot of reliance upon anyone else to provide what it is we are seeking to gain. To "have" is a little different because it might also lean toward this idea of receiving something from another. Gains can be quickly there and al...