Improving Our Communication
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01.03.06[edit | edit source]
Two persons are getting information from a source.
Everybody associates something different with single words. They would not understand each other, because they have different definitions of the words.
Their communication may look like this:
Both persons share their associations around the single words.
Their communication may look like this:
In detail everybody has some associations with single words.
You could share these associations, which doubles everyone's knowledge around this single word.
How to do this? Here is a suggestion:
- You take a single <word>
- Everybody is writing a sentence. Always starting with <word>
- You get to know each other's associations with this specific <word>
You should get something like this:
Person A: <word> is ... Person B: <word> looks like... Person C: <word> has got the following functions . . .
and so on.
Like the idea behind wikipedia. Sharing information. But sharing them around single words.
Basic idea behind:
- language carries information
- the single word is the first module
- the single word is understood very different, because humans are different.
02.03.06[edit | edit source]
Person A has losely connected some words.
Person B too:
Now they start sharing their associations around these single words and they are both profiting from it. Their network of associations has grown and is now stronger than before.
09.03.06[edit | edit source]
A way to solve the problem of different associations and sharing them may be this wiki:
12.03.06[edit | edit source]
An example how to set up linked words in a very easy way on a Windows XP machine with Open Office.
Picture 1: I want to connect the words: "Germany" and "France"
Picture 2: Click on "Germany". What information do I have in connection to this word?
Picture 3: Click on "France". France is related to Germany.
What about putting them both in a folder called "Europe"? Let's connect both together and write everything down to "Europe".