comprehension, meaningfulness

Comprehension is the framing (filling) with meaning of what has been said, done, existing or happened.

Meaningfulness is the presence of meaning in what is said or done. Having logic and serving something valuable, important as a means. The more meaning in what is said or done, the more meaningful are the words and actions, thinking and behavior in general.

Meaningful Behavior

The meaningful behavior of a person is, first of all, the meaningfulness of his actions (actions launched by him). The meaningfulness not only of actions, but also of reactions is a more difficult requirement for people. See →

Meaning and expediency: meaningfulness of activity

In what a person does, there can be little or a lot of meaning. It is worth moving from meaningless deeds to expedient ones, following the meaningfulness and ascending to the mission. See →

Meaningful thinking

Meaningfulness of thinking is the quantity and quality of meanings generated by the process of thinking. Thinking can be incoherent (nonsense), coherent, logical, reasonable, wise. More often (in a mass personality in ordinary life) relatively coherent thinking is observed. Reasonable and even more wise thinking is quite rare. See →

Meaningful speech

Meaningful speech is speech built in a meaningful way and serving reasonable purposes. What is the internal structure of a meaningful utterance? When a person speaks meaningfully, he, as a rule, in one form or another indicates his intentions and introduces the interlocutor into the context (about whom, what and why he wants to talk about it), after that he briefly and clearly speaks the main idea (thesis). If he sees that what he says is important and interesting to the interlocutor, he clarifies and substantiates the thesis, gives illustrations and formulates conclusions: what he actually led to, what follows from his thought. There is always an instruction in a meaningful statement: you may not agree with the thesis, but you understand what the person wants to say and what is required of you or someone else.

Understanding the situation and managing the emotional state

Comprehension is the perception of a situation that a person makes himself, personally, in his own way. And we can perceive any situation in very different ways …

Victor walks beside me, but he walks wistfully. And I walk beside him and make sure that I walk easily, beautifully, with pleasure. I have a backpack behind my back, it’s easy to bend under it, but I tell myself that this is my physical training load, and I walk with it proudly and beautifully, the way I always lift dumbbells.

My neighbor, a cloakroom attendant, pulls heavy coats day after day at work, and after work runs around shopping with bags. She is exhausted from this so that her summer vacation does not save her. For many years I have been pulling a much heavier barbell and running along the same streets with dumbbells in my hands, but it is precisely because of this that I feel so cheerful that I practically do not need a summer vacation … Both she and I — we load our muscles with work, and this is what we are similar in. But it falls apart from the load, and I bloom. Can you please tell me where this difference comes from? — From there, that I call it physical education and do everything with pleasure, and she calls her hard lot, does it out of necessity and suffers from it. Thinking is different. And that’s all. Because when I’m shopping with bags or carrying a backpack with potatoes, I’m still doing physical education and gaining health.

Different people in the same situation will see different things, comprehend what happened in different ways, and draw different conclusions. By changing the comprehension, managing the comprehension of the situation, you can change both your own and someone else’s emotional state.

See Positions of perception and comprehension of the situation, as well as Reframing, rethinking