(#3) Explantions and Expectations

This is the third and final talk on Lee Thayer's chapter "Explanation as Motive," from his book Piece. cf. http://www.amazon.com/Pieces-Revisioning-Communication-Lee-Thayer/dp/15675027...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Lee Thayer
• Explanation
• Motive
• Communication Theory

[GirlyVoice]

Is the book worth buying? I mean outside of 'explanation as motive' is the rest worthwhile?

[Professoranton]

@GirlyVoice It is a great book in communication theory, a must read for theorists. But it is expensive. Maybe get a library copy and see if you want to own it.

[NeoChalcedonian]

So I'm born into a situation where things already happening and, having no alternative, I follow the lead of others, and this default-original explanation structure rooted in others becomes not only part of me but the means by which I address and answer myself. I do what I do because it's self-explanatory, & for something seemingly-potentially outside that, I either have what I take to be a excuse good excuse or I don't, but the "other" who hears/accepts/rejects excuses is both others & myself.

[GirlyVoice]

Yeah, a bit expensive but I loved this series. I'd like to explore this inner dialog we have with ourselves that seems to dictate our everyday actions and life choices.

[robbwindow]

Great talk, but the reading of the book seems to speak in what I call palindromes. Is this book by Thayer really worth reading? The snake and the Adam and Eve thing was fun though. What you put into teaching here on Youtube is excellent, your students are very lucky. These little speeches are valuable. Explanations and expectations I suspect will always be two sides of the same coin.

[CammieSpectrum]

Super Left Brainers are more likely to Idealize goals at the expense of other goals; meaning they are more susceptible to Expectations; but Expectations/Habit are still a Teleological Explanation. And People more naturally Right Brained are more likely to sacrifice one goal for another that is more signfigant in their mind, regardless of theri Left Brain expectations; good videos

[Realizalize]

the class thing is also an act, where ppl need time to adjust to eachother(f.ex.),

i had that with changing jobs, met folks that needs up to 2 weeks to get a joke or two, to sort of warm up a bit,

yet they are in it , the job, for so long, that it should kind of be their habitat.

[Paramystical]

Fantastic talk. Thanks for this! Also enjoyed the spirited delivery.

[0ThouArtThat0]

Makes sense... Like you said in your response to Pat Condell, so much of our identity is socially supported. The need to explain oneself seems like the anchor for this effect.