A smart friend says something confusing. You usually automatically default to:
A) I must be failing to understand this
B) They must be failing to communicate this
- A) I'm failing69.7%
- B) They're failing30.3%
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burden of understanding ideally flows both ways, when my mind generates the "insufficient data to construct inferential bridge" error, it doesn't assign blame or failure to one party or the other.
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It's incumbent upon the communicator to communicate something I can understand, particularly if it's a subject I'm not familiar with in the first place.
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“They’re failing”…but I’m working on taking a beat and reassessing before shouting that out!
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Porque no los dos?
I'm failing to understand it (in part) because they are failing to communicate it clearly.
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Lots of “poor communication” comes from an overestimation of familiarity.
Nobody *smart* tries to be obscure.
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One of the defining characteristics of what I consider a smart friend is the ability to communicate their ideas clearly
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Can't answer, no significantly smarter friends.
The one smarter guy I knew through gaming, we never had a failure to communicate, just argued/debated endlessly to some mutual enjoyment.
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