Humans are meaning making creatures

Humans are meaning making creatures. We abhor confusion and unpredictability.

In a general sense, humans like to understand their world. We are very curious aren’t we?

A person will continue to seek meaning out of confusion. Order and process are very important and our minds are continually seeking to order, categorize and classify our world. Once done, then a new order of thinking can emerge and a new level of understanding or learning can be achieved. Really, confusion is a nice indicator that you are about to learn something very important.

A person will continue to seek control or predictability over the unpredictable. In what job can you be right only 30% of the time and still keep your job? Right – weatherman! All kidding aside, as a hobby, I am an amateur radio operator and I work with the local group to spot and monitor storms in our county. I find it amazing that today we have the technology to be able to predict sever storms 3 to 5 days in advanced with a high degree of accuracy.

There is this internal drive to straighten the path, unless keeping the curves in the path allow us to make sense of something we don’t understand.

You can empower you communications by keeping this presupposition mind. Whatever you say, the listener will apply filters to eliminate confusion and create meaning from your words. Remember these are their filters and the communication received may not necessarily be what was intended.

BE Amazing,
-Lane