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What % communication loss is there between two people in a verbal conversation? Between unclear word choices, differences in the preloaded constructs in each party’s head, and differing emotions and incentives it feels like it averages to north of 20%? Curious what others think.

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Shivon Zilis

@shivon

Apr 3

Not to mention that we humans lack perfect attention, so who knows how much was actually heard and processed in the first place 😅

Caesar ∞

@AmorFatiBlosso2

May 6

Words are Nietzschean, not Platonic. Perfection is a metaphor for something real. The summit of things. Full focus is achievable. It's an idea, not an object. It's a process, not an event. The world is not static, it's shifting. It's phantasmagoric. And so is perfection.

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How much is heard and processed is merely a matter of what you said and initiated. Your relation to the evolving conversation. If you speak mindlessly ad nauseaum, you will create the echoes of your mindlessness in others. Become more aware of what makes the other tick.

8:18 PM · May 6, 2022Twitter Web App

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Sow the seed in people that you want to grow. If you don't have a blueprint, you will lose interest in building your edifice. Always design your boat, even as you float it in strange new waters.