Another “story”…..
Suppose you ordered a “great meal” of shrimp cocktail, soup, salad, roast beef, potatoes, green beans, chocolate cake a la mode, and coffee and cognac. And just before they started to serve you, the captain put it all in a “blender” and served you with the resulting “gruel”! It’s the same food!!! What’s your problem???
Well many conversations are like that. They’re all mixed up. The ideas are all served at one time!! One idea is “blended” into another. Generalities and “labels” are “blended” about. No one single thought is pursued to it’s “mutually understood definition”. The rapid personal opinions are followed by more rapid responses. The “meal” is being “blended”!! It truly ends up as “oral static”…i.e. “noise”.
How about a conversation where you make a determined effort to complete one idea at a time? …. Where there is an attempt to find a “mutual definition and understanding BEFORE going to another thought. How about serving the “courses” separately …. Serving one idea at a time.
Many conversations end up being “verbal gruel”!! ….all blended and mixed up … no “mutual” understanding!
You don’t even have the enjoyment of a single idea!!!
“But, I thought we were just having a conversation!” ….
“Oh yeah!! I’d rather be taking a warm bath!!”
What a colossal waste of time!!! … and effort!! …. Who wants “gruel”??
If you are aware of a “blender” type conversation, you can avoid it. If one idea is expressed at a time; and this idea is explored before another comment is added, there is hope of having “a nice meal”!! Your guests will have a nice, full feeling of having engaged in a “gourmet conversation”!
(Are you a “gourmet chef” or a “blender”?)
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