Athenian200
Protocol Droid
- Joined
- Jul 1, 2007
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- Enneagram
- 4w5
In all writing the use of examples to clarify ideas is an advisable thing to do if increased clarity and understanding among your audience is what is wanted. And since your goal was to get people to participate in the poll, it behooves you to make yourself as explicit as possible so as to minimize errors in understanding that could potentially skew your results.
The problem is that the kind of idea I want to express benefits more from vagueness. The more specific it's made, the less relevant it is and the easier it is to render it inapplicable.
I suppose the problem could be, overall, that I was trying to express a concept that was more vague than could be put into words unless the person was willing to make a lot of assumptions about my meaning. The irony is that when I made the concept more specific, I ended up arbitrarily narrowing it so that I could provide examples, but there were several other ways of viewing it that I didn't have time to include, which might have completely changed how people responded to it.
I suppose what's frustrating to me, is that I can think of so many ways to view the same concept without prompting, while everyone else can't even seem to think of one way without someone else providing it, and then they end up sticking to that one way of looking at it unless someone shows them another that seems more compelling.
I guess basically, I'm frustrated that not everyone is Ni dominant and willing to make crazy assumptions.
Of course, you can't see your big plans through to the end when someone's decided to put a bullet into your head because you've pissed them off too much in the interim.
Practicality. It's not all bad.
That's true, that's true...
Yeah, I'm exaggerating a little when I go off on tangents like that... I would really pay more attention and try to figure out who I was pissing off if I were to actually implement anything. I was saying all that stuff with the assumption that someone else would handle the details and develop the technology.