Making sense versus seeking sense.
Making sense is alluring. However, exclusive efforts to make sense, particularly before we seek sense first, ensures that we miss common sense on the way to misunderstanding what other people say.
How common is common sense?
Not so common. This is because we all “make sense” in a unique way. There is no “make sense” class in school, and we rarely ever talk about how we come to our senses.
How do you come to your senses?
That’s the key question (almost never directly asked) in every conversation where finding common sense is a goal. For what reasons is that so? How do you connect that thought with what’s been said so far?
Seek sense, it will solve a lot of communication problems.
Great questions seek sense. They hover around concepts and thoughts and opinions and tap into what supports them: feelings, past experiences, intuition. They all play a role. Investigating them is critical.
Make sense to remain comfortable; seek it to truly understand how things get done.