People and the webs they weave
April 19th, 2009
I find the interactions between people fascinating. Who speaks to whom, who ignores whom. How the reaction of someone can change completely depending on who they're interacting with. Often it matters very little the content of what's been said, but the biases that people bring with them to the conversation. He was a dick to me when I first met him, so even if he has just said the most profound thing I've heard all day, it's not going to affect me as much as if someone else had said it.
This is the sort of thing I think about: how can one adjust what they're saying, the way they're saying it, the style, the syntax, in order to reach their audience. Over concentration on this has perhaps lent my personality a bit of a chameleon quality: it shifts depending on whom I speak to. I'd like to think though that the basic message of what I say doesn't change, however, just the form that I deliver it in.
