Great info; Long ago when I was in a course about negotiating the instructor advised" a lie is not a lie when the truth is not expected. And the truth is not the truth when a lie is expected". Good thing that was 1971 and that isn't our experiences today-Right.
I keep reinforcing with the College Seniors I teach to beware of" what you don't know you don't know". I encourage them to look for the facts and keep searching for the truth.
Good advice to your class. Too many of us today look for information that validates our opinions instead of doing the research necessary to determine if our opinions are valid.
Tom, as Friedrich Nietzsche expressed it well: “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” Time for honesty, listening and compromise – there is more than one way to “right a ship.” The echo chambers of division are tearing our country apart.
Well said. We need to move beyond the search for “common ground” to make the hard decisions on what we are willing to actually give up in order to gain a greater good. Common ground just puts us at a place where, by definition, we already agree. It is the status quo. Compromise takes hard work, with each party willing to concede something significant in order to move an issue forward.
Tom,
Great info; Long ago when I was in a course about negotiating the instructor advised" a lie is not a lie when the truth is not expected. And the truth is not the truth when a lie is expected". Good thing that was 1971 and that isn't our experiences today-Right.
I keep reinforcing with the College Seniors I teach to beware of" what you don't know you don't know". I encourage them to look for the facts and keep searching for the truth.
Good advice to your class. Too many of us today look for information that validates our opinions instead of doing the research necessary to determine if our opinions are valid.
Tom, as Friedrich Nietzsche expressed it well: “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” Time for honesty, listening and compromise – there is more than one way to “right a ship.” The echo chambers of division are tearing our country apart.
Well said. We need to move beyond the search for “common ground” to make the hard decisions on what we are willing to actually give up in order to gain a greater good. Common ground just puts us at a place where, by definition, we already agree. It is the status quo. Compromise takes hard work, with each party willing to concede something significant in order to move an issue forward.