Invisible classroom of
non-verbal communication
Talk, driver drunk, accidents
Fast learners! Who taught!
I am amused at the way people learn things they are not supposed to do much faster than those prescribed to them! What is so attractive about the taboo! Amazed at the way riders, with their heads and shoulders catching the cell so precariously, talk over phone as though it is the most important thing on earth. It is learnt through non-verbal communication.
Accident here is but a metaphor with just two examples...however, there are numerous examples which tell us that what is not to be done is learnt much faster than what is to be learnt. A teacher telling the students not to talk, cheat goes untaught; a grandma telling her grandchild an emphatic 'No' is futile because the child surely interprets that as a loud 'Yes'. It's interesting to observe how words fail to convey the message.
There is another school of thought which says that if the intent is right, message will be conveyed. Now this brings us into a more interesting area of communication. This could veritably mean that the grandma fails to hide the intent to her grandchild even with the emphatic 'No'! She wants the child to do what she's asking him/her not to do! Likewise, when the message 'don't drink and drive', is written and circulated, there is utter disbelief in the writer's mind...and it is this disbelief that communicates to the mass. Vastly interesting, don't you think!
It is for us to ponder if we have really learnt a 'No' as a 'Yes' since childhood, and invariably do the don'ts while ignoring the do's! It would be easier for us to understand why war till date is a historic and a trans-historic reality!
In my opinion, we could even stop the war if we sat and devoted some time into discussing as to how we could trick the non-verbal communication that is so effectively learnt in the open-air classrooms worldwide!
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