On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:43 PM, blastedactresses
no_re...@yahoogroups.comwrote:
Just wondering what you all saw in this (if anything):
Chris Argyris, after four decades of studying human nature, concludes,
Put simply, people consistently act inconsistently; unaware of the
contradiction between their espoused theory and their theory-in-use, between
the way they think they are acting and the way they really act.
(Argyris, 1991)
Add to that the unsteady stream of info coming in through all the senses and
our stream of thoughts. And it's automagically pieced together to be one
continuous, all makes sense panorama. Add further to that our innate
mechanisms to make sense out of nonsense and inconsistency. Edges,
movement, things coming closer or receeding are all processed in the optic
nerve bundle so that the brain needs to do very little to see all the
complexity of the world. A lot of preprocessing goes on before impulses
get to the spinal cord. So we are inconsistent, and we're full of
contradictions minute by minute let alone between higher order espoused
theory and theory in use. Yet it all makes sense to us that we are
consistent, we see a continuous panorama, we act consistently and others
can't see their own folly the way we can see it in their words and actions.
