Projecting, according to the Merriam Webster online dictionary, verb uses, definition 8:
8 : to attribute (one's own ideas, feelings, or characteristics)
to other people or to objects
I do this all the time, probably to my detriment. I project my situations and experiences onto other people all the time. I assume everyone is smarter, faster, more clever, prettier, and everything-else-er than I am.
I also tend to cross the net more than I should.
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This one came from Ben Klasky.
Ben took a touchy-feely class in graduate school that taught everyone how to communicate better.
One of the exercises they did taught them about people projecting their emotions, feelings, history onto the situation and onto the other person's responses. The term they used for this process is crossing the net.
It basically means rather than taking a situation for what it is, someone interprets the situation, often poorly, based on his emotions and mood of the moment.
The lesson learned with the exercise is to see a situation as it is, take a step back if needed, but don't project onto the situation and don't cross the net.
Ben can explain it much better, I think.
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Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 21:55 on 5 May 2005
Everyone has their own way of talking, phrases they use regularly. And I certainly have mine. Some of them I've used for years, some of them I picked up from other people, some of them just happened. All of them part of me.
