Literally, the most difficult challenge in communication is in ACCURATELY representing and EXPLAINING the concept or feeling that you are currently experiencing. Without extensive analysis and research, the average person is completely unaware of how INACCURATELY they are communicating their thoughts.
Thanks to evolved processes such as heuristics, metaphor and analogy, stereotypes and predictive categorization that occur during experiential and language processing, we are still able to make functional sense of each others communication.
Suffice it to say though, that when you are describing a night out with the girls… The visual, auditory and somatic/kinesthetic representations that your mother is having are NOT the same as yours.
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Tomorrow we will talk about some of the specific processes that we battle to gain brain share with someone we are communicating to and then we will follow that up with specific examples of what we can do to monitor someone’s attentional processing to further our own effective communication. Please feel free to explore the rest of my blog The Communication Expert, or if I am online, please feel free to connect with me via Skype.
