Latest from The Sales Blog. Assuming Intentions Good or Bad. Post by Anthony Iannarino May 19, His intentions were to drive leads to the business and help the company grow. Assuming Bad Intentions When you assume bad intentions , you believe something about the person who made the mistake that is rarely true. Share Tweet Share Email Share.
Some of them may be more subtle than others. Anyone who says they have never lied is not being honest. However, it is a red flag if a colleague or new love interest is a pathological liar.
When everything that comes out of your mouth is a lie, and you are constantly trapping them in falsehoods, rest assured that there are more lies behind them. I miss it from pathological liars is that they will lie about the most insignificant things by lying. To hide their growing pile of falsehoods, they must speak more falsehoods. You may get a meaningful clue if you hear them tell your friends and family things that you know are not accurate.
Someone who derives pleasure from other suffering people will surely have dark psychological problems. If they are rolling with laughter after you fell down the stairs or cut your finger, you are dealing with a toxic person. These types of characters also have a lot of fun when others make painful mistakes or have a series of misfortunes. Toxic people are often bitter and jealous of the world.
They see happy and prosperous people as the enemy that causes their misery. When these perceived enemies have a crisis, the toxic person is often proud and glad that their misfortune is avenged.
Countless studies of incarcerated killers show a common link to animal brutality that transforms human abuse and homicide. Anyone who could be sadistic enough to harm or torture a defenseless animal would have no qualms about hurting a human. How do they treat pets or animals in the wild that they come across? Do they happily step on the car accelerator to kill an innocent creature crossing the street? The first sign of animal cruelty or neglect should be enough for you to stay away from this person and report it to authorities.
Although science cannot explain how it works, human intuition is a powerful survival instinct. Have you ever been around people who left you with a strange impression? How do they make you feel when you are together? Do you feel natural and relaxed, or does their presence make you tense? When they touch you, do you feel butterflies in your stomach or are you overwhelmed by the weirdness? Some of your trusted friends may have the same vibes.
Thanks for this great commentary, which brings child development into the conversation. The protagonist kills a man with an old rifle that obviously misfired.
It is obvious to everyone that the death was a mistake and not intended. Nevertheless, it is also obvious to everyone that the protagonist must leave his village and live elsewhere. This is such a hard and fast rule that even the protagonist does not protest it. It is only the action that matters. It is easy to see why this might be so, because a rule might be easier to enforce than allowing exceptions based on intentions, which can be difficult to infer.
I would be interested in what others with cross-cultural expertise have to say on this point. A recent large-scale collaboration by H. The widespread phenomenon of witchcraft beliefs could be instructive here. Every great misfortune had to have a bad intention behind it, and the bad intention had caused the bad outcome through witchcraft.
Therefore, when someone died of superficially natural but unusual causes for example, by a rice barn suddenly collapsing while they were inside people would blame witchcraft and start looking for the witch who had caused it.
Who was suspected of the witchcraft? Interestingly, Zande folk psychological opinion appeared to be divided on whether the act of witchcraft was always intentionally carried out or not.
Sometimes it was thought that someone could more or less unconsciously do harm to a victim as a consequence of some unresolved ill-feeling towards them, while in other accounts witches were portrayed as deliberately taking the form of birds or animals and flying through the air at night to seek out their victims. So that may help explain why accidental harm is not seen as so excusable in cultures like the one described by Achebe: they may not really believe in accidents at all!
Indeed, even in our own culture those who are in charge of a business or a sports team during some calamity that could not have been foreseen by them, let alone intended, nearly always have to pay the price of resigning. So I think it is not so much that people from other traditions do not try to read the intention of others — this is surely a human universal — as that they do not make such fine-grained distinctions as modern scientists do between psychological intentions and other forms of personal responsibility.
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