communication
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Leaders can’t always tell when we’re venting or asking them to do something about it. Sometimes we’re not sure ourselves.
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Everything in life has a process. But when some decide a process can’t be trusted, we no longer have a process.
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Most of the time the stuff we’re arguing about really is what we’re arguing about. It’s easy to play it out, to slide down that slippery slope, take it all the way to the inevitable conclusion. And stake a claim out there. For them. That what they’re saying is so unbelievably ridiculous. To assume we…
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We’re familiar with the phrase “comparing apples and oranges”. The problem with the phrase is that most of the time we aren’t trying to classify all the apples or all the oranges: we’re trying to classify fruit. Which means we think the difference between them doesn’t matter. But when “fruit” is defined as “red”, crisp…
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Trolling isn’t the same thing as debating. But we feel like we have to honor the troll’s arguments as valid. But we don’t.
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When Freud said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, he was bringing us back from an extreme position. It is also really important to notice what that position is in extreme contrast to. I’m not into Freud, but anyone who has taken a psychology class knows why this phrase exists. Precisely because Freud…