to communicate well
musings, examples, and insights on good communication
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to communicate well
“If I have a difficult thing to understand, if there’s something I think is not going to be that easy to get, I try to say it in three different ways. I think if you come in from different angles you have a better chance of getting a three-dimensional view of this difficult idea.”
Big Think • 3 Rules to Express Your Thoughts So That Everyone Will Understand You
Offering undivided attention and curiosity not only lowers the temperature of a conversation but can change its outcome
Guy Itzchakov • Why Listening Well Can Make Disagreements Less Damaging
We often raise issues of justice and equity not to advance meaningful social causes but to generate positive attention for ourselves by denigrating others. Sometimes this involves piling on—joining a Greek chorus of reproachful replies without contributing anything new—or exaggerating one’s moral outrage for dramatic value. In doing so, we dilute the impact of critical ethical issues and foreclose the possibility of productive public discourse. The goal is not to understand but to win.
my sense is that people who take a long time to respond to messages, or tend to go into shame spirals about them, often put a lot of pressure on themselves to respond in a specific way
Fun Pilgrimx.comthread