Codec-Theory

Everyone Has a Different Codec

What was your last argument really about?

If you think carefully, most conflicts don’t start with bad intentions. They start with different interpretations of the same words. Psychologist George Kelly noticed this decades ago: people don’t passively receive reality — they actively construct it through personal lenses shaped by their entire life history (Kelly, 1955). Two people can witness the exact same event and walk away with completely different stories about what happened.