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Hot and Tasty
Recently, I was the recipient of an opinion survey from an organization with which I do business. To protect the innocent, let’s say the questions went something like this… Were the biscuits hot and tasty? Was the room clean and comfortable? Would you stay here again or recommend the property? With any of these questions, it’s impossible to know what I was really thinking by my answer. Perhaps I found the biscuits to be pleasantly warm from the oven, but alas, not so delicious. How do I answer? Unfortunately, surveyors make the common mistake of combining questions with conjunctions rather than parsing them out (e.g. Were the biscuits hot? Were the biscuits tasty?). Why do these combo…
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May You Be With The Force
Some people might say something doesn’t “sit right with them”. Other people might call it listening to their intuition or trusting their gut. Yoda would refer to sensing a disruption in The Force. Regardless of their parlance, they’re saying the same thing. Something in a situation just doesn’t feel right. As much as some of us would like our decision making to follow an entirely rational course, we are occasionally pulled in a different direction by a detour of feeling. This isn’t the emotional kind of feeling. This feeling is a physical sensation–something I have always equated to a shift in energy. There is likely a scientific explanation for it. I will leave that to someone better equipped than me to explain. What…
