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by Demeanor3940
1164 days ago
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While it is the intelligent to recognize that humans are mostly irrational and can't handle truth, and that you will have better results by working around their defensive instincts - it is still people's responsibility to try to think rationally. The example of the truck sign is a false equivalence. It would be better if the author said the "Careful, dangerous dog" sign or "electric fence" or "radioactive". If you think of humans as equals, you must also recognize that half of the responsibility of communication lies with the listener. You can become an excellent communicator by taking 90% of responsibility, dancing around people's biases and getting around their defense systems. But that shouldn't be expected of you. If you are right, that should be enough if the listener is doing their part of the communication work. If you insist on irrationally touching an electric fence after being warned about it, that is absolutely not the communicator's fault. |
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Most of these advice focus on how to achieve results instantly.
What we want is to bring everyone one up in the long term, communication is part of it, part of sharing a common experience and common reasoning. Sometimes I am hyper rational because I hope the other and I are into a complex discussion where we'll both learn for the future.
But one needs to recognize when hyper rationality should be dropped out