Reaction is more important than intention

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What you mean with what you say is secondary to what the other person understands. In fact, the other person responds to what they understood! As an observational listener you are therefore less concerned with what your own intentions are (or were) and pay much more attention to the reaction your message triggers in the other. This is because the reaction (both in facial expressions and words) reflects what the other person understood.

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