Brain Principle No 4 - The Brain craves completeness

I've seen this phenomenon many times when what was expected of someone wasn't carefully spelled out. What I wanted them to do and what they thought I wanted them to do often didn't match.

To show them how easy it was to misunderstand, I held a coin in front of me and told people to describe it. Then I described it from my perspective. Even though we were looking at the same coin, my description ws different from theirs because I was looking at the back and they were looking at the front.

Sometimes we leave too much to the imagination. If you want specific things done in a specific way, you have to be specific and require those under you to tell you what you just told them. If you don't do this, people will come up with 1001 excuses why is wasn't done right or wasn't done on time.

We have to be careful to communicate our thoughtswith completeness. Too often people used what is called the assumption communication. This communication pattern usually relies on the wrong assumption that the other person knows what I am talking about. When I am relaying an idea, I used words to paint a picture in the mind of the listener.

What is dangerous is that the more uncomfortable the topic is, the more we rely on the assumption communication. Unfortunately, the more uncomfortable or sensitive the topic is , the more important clarity and completeness is.

Prep for Triathlon

It's being almost a month since my last post.... Oh my goodness... Was I so busy ?

Nevertheless , I am back with my blogging ways.

Yes, as the title suggested , I am now finding everything about Triathlon and preparing for it.
Last Sat , I met up with my sec sch fren who was a bike lover since then . We went to this bike shop called "The Bike Boutique" at Tanjong Pagar, Tra St. (Just what I wanted to do all the while)

It gave me an opportunity to learn more about bikes. There are many different kind of bikes varying from road bikes, mountain bikes and Tri-bikes (meant for competition / countries which has lesser traffic lights) to decide with.

The salesperson , Grace was very helpful and imparted alot of knowledge about bikes.
She mentioned that bike fitting is very important for triathletes as you will spend half of your time on biking during TRI-ing. This will prevent back injuries and uncomfortness in your legs and hands if the frame is too big or too small. Hence , the bike needs to be one that fits your body nicely in order to enjoy the race.

She also shared about the importance of getting good parts so that you would not need to upgrade so many times if you get hooked to TRI-ing (trust me you will get hooked! Alvin will vouched for this)

I will be learning more about bikes before deciding whether to rent or buy one... To be able to start my first TRI, I must be committed.