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Communication
5 strategies to check your perceptions and improve your communication.
Our perceptions often conflict with their perceptions. Try these.
What’s your perception of climate change? What’s your perception of the price of crypto currencies?
Perceptions are both public and private. Perceptions are also paradoxical.
Perceptions can be “a belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how things seem.” Perception is also: “the quality of being aware of things through the physical senses, especially sight.”
We use all five senses to form perceptions — some more dominant than others depending on the context.
Perceptions form meanings — and meanings are also paradoxical. Meaning is created within one’s Self, as well as among and between people. Sometimes shared, sometimes not. There is mushy interplay between these; and thus sometimes mushy, messy communication as a result.
Our brains operate like a water catchment area — or a watershed.
Percepts (data chunks) rain down onto and into our brain. As they run down the slopes of our brain, they form channels — just like water on a hillside.
