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Hanlon’s Razor: How to Be Less Judgmental and Build Better Relationships

We, humans, crave a perfectly ordered world though the chances of something going as intended are fairly rare. When there's more than one human being involved in the equation, the predictability goes for a further toss.

What do we do when things do not turn out as intended? Instead of being curious and trying to learn from the situation, our mind assumes the worst possibility. Depending on how we see the event unfold, we derive an interpretation and create stories in our minds that conform to our beliefs.

As a species, we are also very unique in associating two completely disconnected stories and finding patterns in events that do not exist. Our tendency to interpret every event as it relates to us creates a distorted version of reality. It makes us assume negative intent when things do not work out even though the outcome may be completely unrelated to us.

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Relationships at Work Are Everything

Even at work, it's all about who you connect with.

Malcolm Gladwell famously shed light on the role of 'connectors' in his best selling book The Tipping Point. He regarded connectors as, obviously, people who know a lot of people, but more importantly, people who can connect different worlds and spot things in one world that can be applied in another.

Or as Gladwell himself said, "connectors are people who link us up with the world. People with a special gift for bringing the world together."