Kokology - Your Name Here

Are you ready to play KOKOLOGY?

What is Kokology?

Tips: 
• Say the first thing that pops into your head 
• Don’t try to predict answers 
• Be honest with yourself 
• Be prepared 
• Keep an open mind
  

{Book 2, Pg. 59} The world is full of other people, and their number grows day by day.  For Most of us, our social worlds also expand a little each day.  Most of our contacts with others are random, chance encounters with people we may never meet a second time.  But Sometimes fate has other plans, and the stranger you met just yesterday may change your life tomorrow.  that uncertainty is one of the things that keep life interesting.  Yes, each of our circles of acquaintances is constantly expanding.  But when you take a moment to reflect, you may be surprised at how that circle is not as wide as you might have thought.

(For this exercise, you'll need a blank paper and a pencil or pen.)

1. Write your name in a box in the center of the paper.
2. Try to fill the remaining blank space on the page with the names of people you know.  take as long as you need, but try to fill in the entire page.
   
3. Draw a single horizontal line through the center of the page.  It should cut through the box with you name in it.
4. Choose a name at random in each of the two sections of the page and circle them both.

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Key to "Your Name Here"

Randomness is a simple and familiar concept, but one the mind has difficulty achieving inn practice. Even a conscious and honest attempt to make a random selection is never truly free from the influences of subtle biases and unconscious preferences. The names you picked from the crowded page were determined at least in part by your own perceptions of the people named and how you position them in relation to yourself.

The name you circles in the upper half of the page belongs to someone you respect or see as standing above you. The person whose name you circled in the bottom half is someone you take for granted or look down on. You may be surprised to find that these feelings are in no way related to whether or not you like the people in question. Love and respect do not always go hand in hand.