Saturday
Jul292006
WYSIWYG - Or Not in most cases
Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 2:38AM
There have been a number of posts that I have started all of which
focus around one topic. What you see is not always what you expect,
and the first assumption you make is not always correct.
This all started off when I was interviewing people for a number of
positions in my team. I was thinking about how we decided if someone
is right for a team or for an organization and how you make that
decision. There is a lot of literature that says within the first
minute you have made come up with your first impression of a person and
it will be really hard for them to come up with a way to change your
opinion of them. I spent some time wondering about this and whether it
made sense to me, and I guess to some degree it did.
Anyway following this train of thought (which by the way was rapidly leaving the station) I was reading a couple of blogs that I tend to have an interest in, and there have been a couple of posts on them that got be thinking on this again.
When you see someone on, for example, the television you come up with an idea of what they will be like - failing to remember that we all wear masks and only show people the bits we want them to see. You often hear about people saying I am sure that person x would be like this based on some character they have played or something that you have heard them say. This has become more prevalent (good word for this time of night) with the rise of reality tv.
Anyhow when I am work I may occasionally check out these blogs to see what is happening and one day someone asked me, "What do they blog about?". it turned out that at the time I was looking at Jason "Mayhem" Millers site and reading a blog that he had written following some issues that he had been working through. I answered that it depended on the mood of the blogger and what they had to say. I just got raised eye brows about that
Anyway when I talk to people about liking MMA they look a bit aghast and say but it is just brutal and the people that take part are just bullies. I guess this is just another case of incorrect first assumptions. Recently having re-read Mayhems blog and another couple of entries by Evan Tanner on his blog I thought I would write this and now I am not sure why other than the fact that there was something very touching in watching these two men battle their own daemons through their own words to tell people what was happening with them.
Sometimes we forget that the journey we take is as important as where we are going and that what we hold as universal constants and truths may not always be what they seem.
So a learning point - what you first see is not always what is really there.........and now it is late an my brain no longer works so it is time to rest and make ready to face what ever tomorrow has in store
focus around one topic. What you see is not always what you expect,
and the first assumption you make is not always correct.
This all started off when I was interviewing people for a number of
positions in my team. I was thinking about how we decided if someone
is right for a team or for an organization and how you make that
decision. There is a lot of literature that says within the first
minute you have made come up with your first impression of a person and
it will be really hard for them to come up with a way to change your
opinion of them. I spent some time wondering about this and whether it
made sense to me, and I guess to some degree it did.
Anyway following this train of thought (which by the way was rapidly leaving the station) I was reading a couple of blogs that I tend to have an interest in, and there have been a couple of posts on them that got be thinking on this again.
When you see someone on, for example, the television you come up with an idea of what they will be like - failing to remember that we all wear masks and only show people the bits we want them to see. You often hear about people saying I am sure that person x would be like this based on some character they have played or something that you have heard them say. This has become more prevalent (good word for this time of night) with the rise of reality tv.
Anyhow when I am work I may occasionally check out these blogs to see what is happening and one day someone asked me, "What do they blog about?". it turned out that at the time I was looking at Jason "Mayhem" Millers site and reading a blog that he had written following some issues that he had been working through. I answered that it depended on the mood of the blogger and what they had to say. I just got raised eye brows about that
Anyway when I talk to people about liking MMA they look a bit aghast and say but it is just brutal and the people that take part are just bullies. I guess this is just another case of incorrect first assumptions. Recently having re-read Mayhems blog and another couple of entries by Evan Tanner on his blog I thought I would write this and now I am not sure why other than the fact that there was something very touching in watching these two men battle their own daemons through their own words to tell people what was happening with them.
Sometimes we forget that the journey we take is as important as where we are going and that what we hold as universal constants and truths may not always be what they seem.
So a learning point - what you first see is not always what is really there.........and now it is late an my brain no longer works so it is time to rest and make ready to face what ever tomorrow has in store
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