Communication Expertise with Cognitive Rule Sets.
Decision making has been an inherently interesting subject for the field of psychology. In understanding the process by which people make decisions, it is significantly easier to predict and direct their behavior…
For us to move further in our discussion, the term “decision” is important to define and understand first… Now when I say “decision”, many people are only envisioning a buying decision which is fair enough.
What most people really don’t realize though is that decisions are not only involved, but are the life blood of literally every single turn in our life. When you heard the noise to your right while reading this, you made a “decision” to look that way, or not. When you were walking toward a man on the street last week you made a “decision” to move left or right. When you were in Macy’s, you made a decision to NOT buy certain items… Well you get the point.
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Like it or not, this is what is going on… Do we have conscious control over the actual decision? Yes, of course, should you decide to volitionally exercise control of it. Most people have very limited control over this though and either exercise it in only the direst of circumstances or exercise it temporarily…
In our next post we get right into the nitty gritty of cognitive rule sets and how to elicit them for effective communication.
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