How Rumors Spread

Last week I ran across this hilarious video on Facebook (of course right?!).  In under 4 minutes this facilitator showed a visual of the game I called "telephone" as a kid.

In telephone, there is a line up of ten or more people.  One person starts with a phrase and has to whisper it, just once, in their neighbor's ear.  That person that received the phrase then has to whisper it to their neighbor.  And so on and so forth.  

What is fascinating is that by the time the phrase reaches the last person in the line up, it has changed.  Like clockwork.  

It is a truly funny and yet highly informative game of how human interpretation is fallible and represents how rumors spread.

This is important to note.  We have abstract brains, capable of grasping great truths, or getting imprisoned by our own illusions.  It is easy for us to get swayed into illusion, unil we become aware and can catch self-deception before it starts.  This is the power of coaching and how we help our clients navigate.  

Powerful coaching helps clients move from self-deception into self-empowerment, the slippery ground of illusion to the solid footing of truth and from littleness to greater magnitude.
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Without further ado, check out today's hilarious video that illustrates how easy it is for our interpretations to shift! Let me know in the comments how you see this occur in your life. Do you?

In Service to Your Life Purpose,

Laurel Elders, PCC
​Senior Faculty of IICT