When giving speeches and facilitating workshops I talk fast and tend to mumble. Sometimes that works to my benefit. Reading through the Solution-Focused literature Steve de Shazer was fond on what he called “useful misunderstandings”.
Meaning, people hear what they hear and the message sent may not be the message received…leading to a Useful-Misunderstanding.
While you are reading this, you are understanding it in your context of knowledge, time and condition.
On to the Inquiry:
When have you found ‘useful-misunderstanding’ in your work to be effective? In what ways, understanding that useful-misunderstanding will happen, can you benefit from this knowledge? Is misunderstanding ever really useful?
michael cardus is create-learning
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