Definition - #301 - #13 – How many ways to build a pyramid?

How many ways are there to build a pyramid? ….. I’d like to talk about “two”!!

You can build a pyramid from the bottom up!!
You can build a pyramid from the top down!!

Most conversations are “trying to focus” on a point of view, an opinion. The speaker “tries” to construct a “verbal pyramid” from the bottom up. He goes from the complicated to the complex. More and more things are built into the pyramid. Soon the complex is “so complex” that the conversation no longer has a focus much less a meaning. (And people even join in!!!) The pyramid gets higher and higher. The conversation gets longer and longer, boring and more boring!!
Time to take a warm bath!!

Is there a “successful alternative”?

Try this!!! Suppose you try to make the conversation simpler. Suppose you start to build your “verbal” pyramid from the “top” down? Suppose you try to go from the complex to the complicated and then go down to the simple, the “mutually defined”? You are going down to the “base”.
You are actually going to the “basic”… the point at which you start, the point to which you will always return.!!
What are we really trying to talk about?
What’s the basic idea you are trying to discuss?
NOT what’s wrong with “it” (whatever “it” is). Not how to fix “it”. Let’s first find out what “it” is!!!

Let’s try to build our “verbal pyramid” from the “top” down; from the complex to the “basics”!!!

Ask for “definitions”. Ask for “basics”. Ask for anything that will help you understand what the speaker is talking about. Then, and only then, can you begin to construct your pyramid of improvements, understandings, and actions. Only then can you have a “useful” conversation.

Can you imagine people throwing their “limited amounts of lifetime energy” into verbal exchanges which have no “mutual” meaning?….. and, getting upset about “it”??
People are talking “at each other” … NOT “with each other”!!!

Time to take another warm bath!!! …… It’s all noise …….It’s all “oral static”!!!

To be a good pyramid builder, all you have to do is ASK!!!
A good, “mutually meaningful” question is often as useful as an answer!

First, be a good “asker”!!! … There’s plenty of time to get more complicated!