Consistency is totally underrated. I recently had a good conversation with a friend about how important consistency is in personality and temperament. Knowing what to expect from someone seems pretty boring on the surface- maybe true, but I would argue that the person was probably boring to begin with. Its pretty frustrating to have to guess how someone will react to a comment or a new situation. There must be some adaptive heuristic at work that tells you, based on every situation you've seen a person in, how they will react in the future. This goes out the window with inconsistency.
The only way to handle inconsistency in my opinion is to be as consistent as possible, ideally to the point where the other person begins to question their own consistency. Maybe this makes no sense, but this is my first blog post and I have a hangover. The idea is there.
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You and Andy have cool blogs. I also liked Aaron's. I was thinking about consistency recently because I tend to prank my friends and mix it up. People feel comfortable around that which is understandable because it will produce a predictable response. I call my roommate the Turing Machine because he almost exclusively a set of behavior-based reactions. However, we can be attracted to enigmas and anomalys because they're cool and we strive to understand them. This same unpredicability makes the unreasonable psychopath a great villain.
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