Book - Chapter - First
[TOC] Book - Chapter - First
-- 2020 06 09 - 2014 - iteration 01
One of most arrogant things you can do is not grant someone else a voice.
It is very easy to do.
You yell, out of anger or pain, and crush someone's soul.
Or, during a conversation, you simply don't listen.
Because, of course, things are self-evident - anyone who disagrees is wrong.
It is the danger of presuming a single story is enough.
That there is no need for additional context.
That YOUR perspective is objectively true.
Nobody is completely right the first time.
Revelations and insights often come from someone with whom we're in conflict.
What if we raced to see who was most merciful instead of who was first?
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some additional thoughts:
- Presuming any single person is completely accurate will always eventually bear failure
- We are a social bunch of animals - and building a model of reality without factoring this in will be bad
-- 2020 06 09 - 2014 - iteration 01
One of most arrogant things you can do is not grant someone else a voice.
It is very easy to do.
You yell, out of anger or pain, and crush someone's soul.
Or, during a conversation, you simply don't listen.
Because, of course, things are self-evident - anyone who disagrees is wrong.
It is the danger of presuming a single story is enough.
That there is no need for additional context.
That YOUR perspective is objectively true.
Nobody is completely right the first time.
Revelations and insights often come from someone with whom we're in conflict.
What if we raced to see who was most merciful instead of who was first?
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some additional thoughts:
- Presuming any single person is completely accurate will always eventually bear failure
- We are a social bunch of animals - and building a model of reality without factoring this in will be bad
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