Consider This: An Example
How body of knowledge shapes perception
An old joke anecdote…
Picture Palm Beach, Florida. Evening. A palatial restaurant. A rich dowager enters dripping with diamonds and asks to be seated for dinner. The head waiter bows and apologizes, saying she’ll have to wait. Every table is occupied.
The waiter explains, “It’s Thursday, you know.” He says, “Cook’s night out.”
At this the dowager surveys the crowded dining room and asks, “Are you saying all these people are cooks?”
The assumption based on personal experience
The disconnect happens because the rich person assumes that all people eat at this fancy place. Even cooks. When they have a free evening.
That’s body of knowledge at work. How experience and education skew your reality.
Happy New Year ❤
An emotional roller coaster came into the high end restaurant at 8pm on a Saturday and asked for a table for 10 people. The host told here there would be quite a wait. They were full and had several other groups already waiting. The roller coaster yells and cries for a time, then starts going to tables to ask them to leave so her party can sit down. What do you think the restaurant management did in response?
Its not rhetorical. Want to see what you think the appropriate response should be.