[FRIAM] sometimes an onion is just an onion...

[Nick Thompson]

George Bernard Shaw Quotes. "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ?
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 11:57 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] sometimes an onion is just an onion...

On 06/15/2017 08:27 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> " It's the writer's job to balance and judge the amount of control ... ."
> 
> So I, as a writer, have to be very slow to be aggrieved when I am not understood.  
> 
> It's like the salesman blaming the customers for his not making the sale. 


I don't know if it can be sourced.  But I really like the aphorism: The problem with communication is the illusion that it exists.


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☣ glen

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