Sometimes people cannot recognize their true needs. They experience a sense of lack, but cannot understand that this lack stems from that need. Until the need is met… Only then do they realize how important that need was… The search for “consistency” is such a need… People cannot express it, but it is what they seek in life, in events, in relationships… The absence of contradictions in events, messages, behaviors, and information… Consistency is when the same response is always given in such situations. If something is consistent, it does not surprise, deceive, or confuse. If negative feedback is received when a mistake is made, and this is repeated every time the mistake is made, this is consistency. However, if sometimes negative and sometimes positive feedback is received when a mistake is made, it confuses the person. Consistency is what a child expects from their parents…

If a child makes a mistake and the parents sometimes get angry and sometimes don’t, the child cannot learn anything. Because the feedback given is inconsistent. Yet a mistake is always a mistake. For learning to take place, both the mother and father must give the same response at all times. Distorting reality based on one’s mood at the moment harms the other person.

Consistency is what is needed for one person to be able to trust another…

If a person sometimes thanks you when you do something nice for them and sometimes acts as if nothing happened, their behavior is inconsistent. You cannot trust that person because their actions are contradictory and their reactions are unpredictable in that situation.

However, you can predict what trustworthy people will do in any situation. These people have a style, and they do not change it on a whim. Their response to wrongdoing is clear, and their response to rightdoing is clear. When they make a promise, it is clear what they will do, and when they are shown kindness, it is clear what they will do. Therefore, people whose behavior is consistent do not surprise you.

Consistency is an important human need…

Seeing the same process, the same response under those conditions…

Seeing nature respond in the same way when spring comes…

When night turns to day, the sun always rises in the east…

The stars, water, and ants always respond the same way under those conditions…

Being able to see the same responses under those conditions…

This is consistency.

They do not surprise people. People know when, what, and what they will encounter…

So, what is the point of this?

Without consistency, we couldn’t establish cause-and-effect relationships.

We couldn’t understand the relationships between created things.

If everything were variable every time, we couldn’t make predictions or take precautions…

If reality were variable according to you or me, we couldn’t produce strategies, give advice, or do science.

Everyone would have to learn everything in the moment. And they couldn’t reuse what they had learned.

Humans, by nature, cannot tolerate inconsistency and contradiction. They cannot feel at ease in inconsistency; their minds become confused, and they cannot find solutions.

Inconsistency is like a dead-end street…

Just as we cannot trust people who behave inconsistently, we cannot trust inconsistent information.

Humans want information that never changes, that always produces the same result in the same situation.

When everyone says something different on the same subject:

“Well, which one is true?” This is why people ask this question.

“So, which one should one believe?”

“So, which one can one trust?”

Information that does not change according to time, personal opinions, or subject matter…

Information that always gives the same response across all times, all people, and all topics…

Consistent content…

Because that information doesn’t leave people hanging, doesn’t act one way one day and another the next, doesn’t deceive anyone…

It stands firm, under all pressures, always saying the same thing…

That’s why people can trust it and surrender to it…