Express What You Already Know
There are so many ways information and technology has molded, motivated and conditioned the human mind today, in that other’s interpretation of information sent or received could lend itself to what either party could choose to think, say, or even act upon without the intended desire to achieve or action what the writer actually meant.
When communicating with one another, it seems the human conversation is not as literal or effective, when one can just “plop down” at the computer, the social media of choice, or the mobile phone to express, render or convey, interpret, suggest, spell and form idioms and ideas that may have nothing to do with what one originally intended.
Today we tend to meld our minds to instantly absorb and action the trendy technical information with muddled efficiency. Why has human conversation with one another seemed to have morphed into self-imagined thoughts becoming like the changing of a trendy fashion, as if technical expression has become the new “vogue?”
It is truly uncanny how the human mind can absorb so much electronic information to process that we sometimes forget we have a living “working” mind of our own. We transmit our own thoughts, aspirations and ideas not always recognizing that human beings actually still yearn to communicate with one another in real terms, not always to express or mold ideas by “sound bite.”
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Not that IT and other types of electronic communication is bad, ill-timed or even out of step with today’s fast changing society, but there is so much more the mind’s eye can synthesize in a look, glance, thought or gesture that can be expressed and translated naturally in order to achieve a goal, desire or feeling. Seems our society today does not place as much value on human connectivity as a mode of the human dynamic of spoken thought as we once did.
Instant information is easier to create, transmit, digest and further, creates the benefit of the originator to create multi-faceted interpretative probabilities. The receiver must absorb and translate these “techno-messages” to the satisfaction of the sender. The receiver must interpret the message correctly so the intent and value of the information is not misinterpreted by either party. Then comes the rewrites!
This aspect occurs more frequently than we care to admit. Miscommunication is born! What about just sitting down to a personal conversation, chat group, team-calls, face-time, or phone calls with real warm emotional “98.6” breathing humankind?
What we store in the mind’s eye is a permanent record of what we traverse through on a moment by moment basis. As the human mind builds knowledge, thoughts become more sanguine, descriptive and collective so the individual or group may choose to add to another’s conversation and build something that was not previously thought about or discussed.
Creating or building something from nothing always begins with a thought from the mind’s eye. We would do well to add this thought to our daily life and challenge ourselves to believe that practiced personal communication will build confidence.
It may allow expressiveness in what is and what you already have come to know: Remembering how to think and speak about any given scenario that one is trying to express in their own mind, is specifically and personally to and for the benefit of ourselves and fellow human neighbors.
