Communication
Communication, thinking and action
Thinking and communication
"The Tao never does anything,
yet through it all things are done.
If powerful men and women
could centre themselves in it,
the whole world would be transformed
by itself, in its natural rhythms."
The 2000 years old Chinese classic Tao-te-ching
A REALLY GOOD TALKER
Learning from others and
living in a society
If we think of how a really good talker talks,
creating a scene of large meaningful things for the audience,
talking of facts that concern life and not just theory,
referring to both feelings and motivation,
and to the practical reality, understanding of the world,
what needs to be done, why and how we get it done.
They speak the language of good thinking,
that is natural for humans,
that is a natural part of how human societies work
and how humans think and
arrange things together as larger groups.
That kind of thinking forms a picture of the world
that handles also the questions about how things are
from the human point of view: emotions.
And emotions help to handle large scale things, too,
to take care of the future.
That is one of the points of view that we long for
when we are about to listen to a good speech or a deep thought.
Thoughts that persons have thought of by themselves,
in ways that have to do with the life in practise
and not with the written word so much
(if at all with the written, unnatural form of language,
that is the cause of an enormous amount of misunderstanding
of what the human thinking is like,
especially what good and natural human thinking is like).
This is probably what thinkers dream of,
what they long for,
what they search for from their realms of knowledge that are stored in the written form, but do not usually find:
It is a new level of structure to thinking,
a natural one that makes things understandable,
communicable easily,
meaningful from the human perspective
and from the perspective of the world at large, all humans as a group.
In objective fact discussions:
What are the concrete facts?
What do those mean to & in one's own life?
What do those mean to the society at large?
What exactly is our emotional reaction to such things like?
Why just such? -> Analyse the thing; How to handle it!
EVERYDAY LANGUAGE
"True mastery can be gained
by letting things go their own way.
It can't be gained by interfering."
The 2000 years old Chinese classic Tao-te-ching
WHAT IS GOOD QUALITY COMMUNICATION STYLE
OF OBJECTIVE FACT DISCUSSION LIKE?
Clear, easily understandable for the listener. Discussing about the essential things and not just technical details of expression, which have nothing to do with the subject itself.
Ordinary everyday talk is ideal to that:
the most natural way for human beings to communicate,
very expressive, easy to understand,
efficient in thinking - much more efficient than technical vocabulary,
which is often computational like to use and does not create any new ideas.
Natural communication is near our natural ways of thinking
and our natural motivational ground
and so it uses our thinking capacity as well as possible.
With technical language like in many professions,
one creates just one learned thought structure,
which is the same to all as far as it is correct but does not create anything new,
is largely fruitless in a way.
With natural language instead,
one gets a communication between the ordinary pictures of the world
and the complexity of them, the real understanding of oneself and others.
Practical pictures of the world are an efficient way of thinking,
which takes into account everything that the individual knows.
In thinking it is essential to choose concepts and words well.
Ordinary everyday language has been created by an evolution of many many generations and is a good means to communicate, from many points of view.
The words should faithfully describe the world as it is,
and one's own understanding of the world.
WRITTEN LANGUAGE
"If you look to others for fulfilment,
you will never truly be fulfilled."
The 2000 years old Chinese classic Tao-te-ching
Written language is a means to remember something. It is not chosen because of being a good base for thinking. On the contrary: it loses many shades and types of meaning from the language, from the natural language (song and gestures and so on!) which is a natural and ideal communicational base for really good natural thinking of all kinds, together with natural sensory stimulus and natural life.
NATURAL SOCIAL LIFE IS IMPORTANT
"True art seems artless
(so enormously complex and natural, errorless, it is)."
The 2000 years old Chinese classic Tao-te-ching
If one discusses with other persons
from other professions with different kinds of backgrounds,
one learns easily new points of view,
gets inspirating new ideas even from very ordinary communication
and from other peoples' experience
even if they do not know much about the subject in question or are stupid.
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