Through my experience I have learned that people who are not familiar with the world of ideas, new ideas, new ways of speaking, are very put off and fear what they don't understand. They automatically assume that you're talking down to them and you are personally, trying to make them feel stupid. I used to be very careful of the vocabula…
Through my experience I have learned that people who are not familiar with the world of ideas, new ideas, new ways of speaking, are very put off and fear what they don't understand. They automatically assume that you're talking down to them and you are personally, trying to make them feel stupid. I used to be very careful of the vocabulary that I used around them. Fear of the unknown is incredibly powerful. And obviously it's corrosive.
If you treat someone as if they're your intellectual peer, they may feel put off and that you're talking down to them. If you're careful with your language, they may detect your caution and question your sincerity to the point of thinking you're talking down to them.
Kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation from what I'm seeing.
Through my experience I have learned that people who are not familiar with the world of ideas, new ideas, new ways of speaking, are very put off and fear what they don't understand. They automatically assume that you're talking down to them and you are personally, trying to make them feel stupid. I used to be very careful of the vocabulary that I used around them. Fear of the unknown is incredibly powerful. And obviously it's corrosive.
If you treat someone as if they're your intellectual peer, they may feel put off and that you're talking down to them. If you're careful with your language, they may detect your caution and question your sincerity to the point of thinking you're talking down to them.
Kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation from what I'm seeing.