Brain principle: Completeness

Make a complete image of the whole 

How would you respond when somebody tells you that he will stop his conversation at once as he wants to keep this a secret?
Children hate this. Most adults will start to try to discover what you are hiding.
What would you do? 

Whenever your brains get a response which is not satisfying (incomplete information), there are two possible reactions:
1. it will stop to think at once and doesn't want to know anything about it anymore.
2. It is begging to tell you more.   

Whenever you feed your brain with incomplete information, it will try to fill this gap with the missing information. 

The Greek philosopher "Socrates" was very famous as he used this principle with his students over and over again. He tried to improve the discussions with his students by asking challenging questions. Whatever happened he would respond with new questions again. In other words, he made his students aware that there were gaps in their knowledge. This would engage his students to fill these gaps of knowledge again. They became eager in obtaining these missing links. 

This is why employees can talk for hours about a certain rumor they have heard. They are searching for the right information in order to complete their whole rumor; they want to be able to get a clear and complete picture of the rumor. 

Exercises to train the principle of completeness  
  
In order to communicate effectively, both speakers need to have a clear mental picture of the subject they are talking about. Whenever you start to communicate, make sure you are talking about the same thing. You need to recheck whether or not you're talking about the same thing.
 
Whenever somebody asks you something, repeat what he/she is saying in such a way that you describe what you have understood of what he/she was saying to you.
 
In brainstorm sessions it is very important not to get stuck in the details. If that occurs, you need to redefine very little pieces of information over and over again. It is much more effective if you leave a lot of question marks; they will function as teasers for the brain; the brain wants these to be completed and erased.
 
And never forget to party whenever you have a victory to celebrate. 

Brain principle completeness 

Let's move on to the next brain principle: Brain principles: Searching brain principle