Saturday, July 01, 2006
assumption
a wise person once said (actually it was a bad guy in under siege 2)
"assumption is the mother of all fcuk ups"
and i've noticed that most assumptions i make are based on something communicated by someone or other. so i reckon the statement could be adapted to become
"communication is the root of all bad assumptions"
i say this because yesterday i made the mistake of interpreting a statement someone had said based on an assumption i made from a communique. the assumption was wrong, but a perfectly valid interpretation nonetheless. it makes me wonder how on earth i can ever talk to someone else and actually know that i was able to communicate what it was that i meant. then i realised i was a teacher now. and i'm going to be guiding people who are trying to learn stuff. and then i just re-read what i wrote and i'm not sure if it communicates what i wanted to say. life is beautiful in a strange and complex way.
"assumption is the mother of all fcuk ups"
and i've noticed that most assumptions i make are based on something communicated by someone or other. so i reckon the statement could be adapted to become
"communication is the root of all bad assumptions"
i say this because yesterday i made the mistake of interpreting a statement someone had said based on an assumption i made from a communique. the assumption was wrong, but a perfectly valid interpretation nonetheless. it makes me wonder how on earth i can ever talk to someone else and actually know that i was able to communicate what it was that i meant. then i realised i was a teacher now. and i'm going to be guiding people who are trying to learn stuff. and then i just re-read what i wrote and i'm not sure if it communicates what i wanted to say. life is beautiful in a strange and complex way.
# posted by marvin @ 8:19 PM 
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Sometimes we all hear what we want to hear... Words come to us through our brains filter, distorting and contorting.
yes indeed. too often we forget that what makes sense to ourselves only makes sense because of what we know. when other people don't know the same stuff they interpret things differently. it can make communicating difficult sometimes.
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