Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Why working with people is difficult than working with machines...
I find myself at great ease whenever i am working on my computer, whenever i am researching something new, alone in my room. My brain stays with me and is involved in thinking like wow this is a great tool, it seems to be new.. etc etc.. which are completely different from the thoughts which i get when i am with other people.. At those times, i get thoughts like.. what is this guy saying, i dont agree with him.. why is he so rude.. etc etc..Machines dont say anything, they dont interrupt you from thinking your own way. they are in your control... you are not afraid of getting in their control.. they are not trying to prove that they are better than you.. they dont attack you in any sense. they dont appear like someone coming from a completely different world, having weird perception like humans do. and afterall machines show you what you want to see.. so you can still stay 100% aligned with your own virtual world. Your perception is not challenged. And you are happy because you are being yourself.On the other hand as soon as we get in touch of humans, our brain starts behaving differently. We are no more ourselves. If they say something which we dont believe in, we feel a pinch. And when 4 people laugh near us and again say something which we dont believe in, we are even more annoyed. It feels like we are getting destroyed. As if our identity is with our beliefs only and when people are dont accepting our beliefs, they are not accepting us. As if they are against us. We get an urge of going away from that place..Managing people mandates us to stay with people. Everyday we need to meet different-2 people who are living in thier own virtual world of perceptions. The essense of perception is that it seems real to the person possessing it even if it may seem completely unreal to the other person. But its too difficult for a person to negate something which he sees from his eyes and perception is not any less. Now if we think about a situation where two people (with different perception of course) are standing close to each other and being fully themselves, here is what will come"no .. i dont believe it.. this is not true... i am 100% sure that its otherwise... i have myself experienced it the other way round how can it be true.. hey listen to me.. "and even if we be fully ourselves with someone, after such conversation we feel a pinch of unacceptance because our beliefs felt that pinch as if we identify ourselves with our beliefs.Moreover such behaviour is unaccepted in organizations... When managing people, apart from being with people, we have to listen to their perception and still say "yes i agree" even if we dont fully agree... we have to continue feeling the pinch of disagreement... getting in 100% agreement with someone is rare... thats why people just keep speaking without listening to others properly.. people even tend to speak loudly because the other person is also not listening.. by raising their voice loud might make the other person stop speaking and the speaker gets a illusionary feeling of getting accepted because no-one else is speaking.. hence he feels good. When we are in 100% agreement with someone, we make a bond like a bond of strong friendship and see how less number of such strong bonds exist in your life.. very few.. may be none. With most of the people we have a friction which is not the easiest path.. and like water we humans also tend to choose the easiest path...
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