The message sent is not always the message received.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the disparity between what is intended in communication and what is actually understood by the recipient.
Virginia Satir's quote emphasizes the complexities of communication. It suggests that the intentions behind a message can often be lost in translation or misinterpreted by the receiver, leading to misunderstanding and miscommunication. This serves as a reminder to be more aware of how we convey our thoughts and to consider the perceptions of others to enhance effective communication.
In practice
This quote can be used in a workshop on effective communication skills.
Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.
I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.
The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.
Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.
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