Mishear & Misread

I misunderstand stuff all the time because I see the world so differently and I’ve understood enough of how a lot of people see the world to not bother to try and understand what they’re saying most of the time and my interpretation is usually much more fun so I prefer to stick with that, unless it’s important for me (or them) to understand and then I’ll put in the effort, otherwise it’s just me, myself and I in my little world

I see the world so differently and I’ve understood enough of how a lot of people see the world to not bother to try and understand what they’re saying most of the time and my interpretation is usually much more fun

Well, there you go, BlueRay.  Exactly.  You see the world so differently.  The corollary being, other people see the world so differently to you.  And if you can't be bothered to try to understand what they're saying, and prefer to interpret things in a way that is more fun for you, then that's probably why you don't get other people's viewpoints. 

Of course they do, we ALL do and I don’t have to try to understand people, I generally do, and unless we’re in a conversation of some kind, I don’t waste my time thinking about how other people see the world, I just accept them as I find them and get on with living. And I’ve rarely, if ever, failed to understand another person’s point of view because I don’t stop until I do understand it. That’s how I live, I keep going ‘until’ ~ so if I’m in a situation that requires me to understand another person’s point of view, in work say with a client, then I don’t stop ‘until’ I do understand it, it’s as simple as that really. 

This is one of the smartest posts I've ever read. To be fair, there are people who teach cognitive linguistics to young college students - and they arrive at this wisdom "artificially" in the same sense that other users might come across your words and find them to be true without the lengthy introspective process  that people normally take to arrive at these conclusions (assuming, of course, that they have sufficient introspective power, and also the humility required to admit to at least themselves how little they actually know, and how much of their reasoning is based on association of statements to given authorities / canonical texts.  Einstein famously said "To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself." He also refused to label himself as a genius, reserving that label for Emmy Noether. Instead, he said he was merely hard working.  The reason he succeeded in overturning Newton when other ostensibly smarter people hadn't - that was because he wasn't afraid of admitting he didn't understand the way things worked. There were contradictions that the Michaelson & Morley (sp) experiments introduced that didn't fit with the concept of rigid bodies at the time, as well. 

When he tried to escape from the *** in 1933, he was denied entry to the USA by our own version of the *** (J Edgar Hoover), who had learned that Hitler had just put a bounty on his head.  When he finally managed to get in, Einstein championed the rights of the poor and also people of color. He was a democratic socialist, after all.   So  In a famous 1946 commencement address at Lincoln University, a historically black college in Pennsylvania, Einstein said that segregation was “not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.”  He and MLK Jr both had the ability to hear other people out, and recognize that truth itself may seem absolute- but it is a murky, undefinable thing when you get closer to it, and does not "prefer any reference frame".  Everybody is the center of their own universe.

This is one of the smartest posts I've ever read. To be fair, there are people who teach cognitive linguistics to young college students - and they arrive at this wisdom "artificially" in the same sense that other users might come across your words and find them to be true without the lengthy introspective process  that people normally take to arrive at these conclusions (assuming, of course, that they have sufficient introspective power, and also the humility required to admit to at least themselves how little they actually know, and how much of their reasoning is based on association of statements to given authorities / canonical texts.  Einstein famously said "To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself." He also refused to label himself as a genius, reserving that label for Emmy Noether. Instead, he said he was merely hard working.  The reason he succeeded in overturning Newton when other ostensibly smarter people hadn't - that was because he wasn't afraid of admitting he didn't understand the way things worked. There were contradictions that the Michaelson & Morley (sp) experiments introduced that didn't fit with the concept of rigid bodies at the time, as well. 

When he tried to escape from the *** in 1933, he was denied entry to the USA by our own version of the *** (J Edgar Hoover), who had learned that Hitler had just put a bounty on his head.  When he finally managed to get in, Einstein championed the rights of the poor and also people of color. He was a democratic socialist, after all.   So  In a famous 1946 commencement address at Lincoln University, a historically black college in Pennsylvania, Einstein said that segregation was “not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.”  He and MLK Jr both had the ability to hear other people out, and recognize that truth itself may seem absolute- but it is a murky, undefinable thing when you get closer to it, and does not "prefer any reference frame".  Everybody is the center of their own universe.