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Learn to Understand
Swallow the juice from the consumed information and then spit the information out.
An acquaintance of mine is a well-informed person. So well-informed that the other day, when I started a conversation with him to share my idea and hear his opinion on the differences between cultural and political power, he narrated the entire human history!
I (im)patiently waited for him to come to any of the relevant keywords: culture, politics, power — but no, he merely went on and on about the things he had learnt about human history.
I am a self-critical person, so I first questioned my own ability to understand his point, but at one point, when I interrupted him and reminded him of the topic I was trying to discuss, he was taken aback. That’s when I understood that he had no point.
‘Yes, Culture is important,’ he started and went on to say, ‘the Persians used to drink strong wine,’ something like this.
I then understood the deal: While he was a well-informed guy, he wasn’t understanding what I wanted to discuss.
Perhaps, he didn’t want to discuss or he didn’t possess the ability to understand what he had learnt?! Perhaps, he was bored. Or, he was merely a possessor of facts and information. Whether he does that for entertainment, passion or…
