Communication

Again, to me, the biggest problems I see is communication and how we communicate. But if we can identify this as the root problem, and figure out how to communicate in a healthier manner - it can solve a lot of problems in the world.

Imagine reading a book, 300 pages long. Now what you pick up from that book, what stood out to you, and write a cliff-note recap of your take-aways. Now imagine someone else doing the same. Sure there will be similarities, but different none-the-less.

Now imagine you explain this book to someone and your philosophy take aways over dinner. You are taking hours of reading, cramming into a short 5-10 minute discussion with a friend. You basically compressed the information into a zip file, losing a lot of context to your philosophy.

Now think about the receiving person listening to your philosophy. Are they paying attention? Are they distracted with someone walking behind you? Are they thinking about a pressing problem in their personal life? How much of what you are saying, they are retaining?

Imagine upload and download speed of comprehending each other. You compress the data to upload a cliff note. They are uploading bad data and they might just agree with you to move on and keep peace in the dialogue. This is the problem, our minds cannot know what you know, and we cannot communicate this effectively. Take this thought process into social media. Into politics. To education. To religion. War. And yet we get confused when people do not think like we do. It is okay to not agree or understand opinions, values or beliefs. Unless you invest the time to understand just as they do, and vise versa, you cannot sit at the table with opposing & uneducated, opinions because that simply results in dispute.