Completeness brain
principle
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:
Searching brain principle
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