What someone tells you verbally and then discusses later with you in a subsequent communique can be rather disparate. That old adage, ‘A verbal contract’ is worth the paper it’s written on’, is so desperately true. And it underscores another veracity: the fact that what I say to you is heard differently by you. And visa-versa. Unless you’re engaging in NSA tactics and taping everything - and that is no rational way for an individual to live - the fact remains that everything is interpretation. So even if you repeat something several times over - to tediously reinforce the fact that, yes, we are in agreement on this point - don’t be surprised if sometime later (even a few hours after the fact) that individual refutes what you say, or utters that most unnerving phrase: ‘I never said that’. Conversation is, as such, never empirical. And when it comes to human negotiation, everything is in the ear of the beholder.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:28:21 +0000
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