David: Publicly pours his heart out into making a personal testimony video about how one person can cause a tidal wave of change that improves everyone's lives UA-cam comments: .....Dude the echo in your video SUCKS
I think there is a similar communication paradox in many other fields; notably in medicine. Collaboration begins to break down as you approach the terminal levels of industry-specific training. By that stage, individuals are highly specialized and deeply immersed in niche technicalities, making it challenging to communicate effectively with those outside their field or even newcomers within it. This dynamic is exacerbated by the perception of field experts as unapproachable authorities, leading people to idolize and make space for rather than collaborate with them.
Maybe it helps to have well-rounded people to bring in ideas and ways of thought from foreign fields. It certainly explains why universities want you to take random liberal arts/science/humanities classes.
Communicating is the whole job. People who say that are bad at communicating, they see people effectively communicating and think “they’re doing it wrong”
this is a feature of language in general. you simply have to assume that others think the same way you do, that's your only experience to base that model on. even with the closest people I've had moments of realisation that while we were using the same words, we meant different things. awareness of this fact allows you to put focus on whether you actually understand one another, but even that is very difficult if you don't speak their specific language!
The technical term for this is the Double Empathy Problem. When two groups of people have different communication styles, they communicate just fine within their group, but cross-group communication is difficult. Combine that with a culture that is biased against one group, and you have people who actually communicate just fine being told they communicate wrong.
Engineers come with a large breadth of knowledge. The non-technical people have smaller scopes of knowledge which are statistically higher likely to be similar with other non-technical people, so that means you have more people that are on the same wavelength which makes communication easy between them. There are fewer engineers so yeah, we are the weird ones.
@@dext0rb I agree that everyone has different scopes of knowledge. If I explain something outside the scope of your knowledge, and you don't understand it, then it proves the point that scope is needed for effective communication.
ever heard lyrics like “i glanced in her eyes and i knew what she needed” and thought this was completely false and made up? We just deny that reality because we are unable to understand the words. There is a powerful meaning and the meaning is not part of your current awareness.
Something's up with the audio track, I do believe. All I hear is an AI voiceover - and have the options to choose from various other languages (none being english). edit: It appears fixed now
UA-cam is rolling out or experimenting with with AI translations and audio. To me, It shows the title and video description translated to my native language (and I hate that). AFAIK creators can disable that, but some people might like it.
cool video. I think your insight is interesting. or perhaps said more descriptively, what's interesting is your desire to openly explore interpersonal relations as an engineer. thanks for posting.
While much of this is true, it often behooves the speaker to lead with a thesis and expand later on in a linear and somewhat concise way. There will always be details, but those are best left unexplored until the larger point is received. If the listener never understands the thesis, is it important that they understand the details? As an engineer I frequently have to remind myself to compose my thoughts, lead with a thesis and address knowledge gaps as they arise. Instead of leading with technical details or the head/tail of my research and progressing from that point. Generally, people understand me far better when I practice this approach.
I'm sure your videos would benefit from this approach. I'm also reasonably certain that your viewer retention would go up if you did. While engineer-to-engineer head/tail of research explanations typically are fine... they can be mentally taxing when doing massive context jumps (e.g. different channels on YT).
This video proves his points, i dont understand what he's trying to say
David: Publicly pours his heart out into making a personal testimony video about how one person can cause a tidal wave of change that improves everyone's lives
UA-cam comments: .....Dude the echo in your video SUCKS
this is crazy right? like confusing and exciting at the same time
I think there is a similar communication paradox in many other fields; notably in medicine. Collaboration begins to break down as you approach the terminal levels of industry-specific training.
By that stage, individuals are highly specialized and deeply immersed in niche technicalities, making it challenging to communicate effectively with those outside their field or even newcomers within it.
This dynamic is exacerbated by the perception of field experts as unapproachable authorities, leading people to idolize and make space for rather than collaborate with them.
Maybe it helps to have well-rounded people to bring in ideas and ways of thought from foreign fields.
It certainly explains why universities want you to take random liberal arts/science/humanities classes.
Communicating is the whole job. People who say that are bad at communicating, they see people effectively communicating and think “they’re doing it wrong”
this is a feature of language in general. you simply have to assume that others think the same way you do, that's your only experience to base that model on. even with the closest people I've had moments of realisation that while we were using the same words, we meant different things. awareness of this fact allows you to put focus on whether you actually understand one another, but even that is very difficult if you don't speak their specific language!
The technical term for this is the Double Empathy Problem.
When two groups of people have different communication styles, they communicate just fine within their group, but cross-group communication is difficult. Combine that with a culture that is biased against one group, and you have people who actually communicate just fine being told they communicate wrong.
Engineers come with a large breadth of knowledge. The non-technical people have smaller scopes of knowledge which are statistically higher likely to be similar with other non-technical people, so that means you have more people that are on the same wavelength which makes communication easy between them. There are fewer engineers so yeah, we are the weird ones.
I feel like this comment is a fallacy of sorts. IMHO, all people have *different* scopes of knowledge, and size of scope is irrelevant.
@@dext0rb I agree that everyone has different scopes of knowledge. If I explain something outside the scope of your knowledge, and you don't understand it, then it proves the point that scope is needed for effective communication.
ever heard lyrics like “i glanced in her eyes and i knew what she needed” and thought this was completely false and made up? We just deny that reality because we are unable to understand the words. There is a powerful meaning and the meaning is not part of your current awareness.
Something's up with the audio track, I do believe. All I hear is an AI voiceover - and have the options to choose from various other languages (none being english).
edit: It appears fixed now
spooky 😮
either the audio is fixed, or I'm suddenly perfectly fluent in German
@@davidmalawey sorta perfect given the content of this video
UA-cam is rolling out or experimenting with with AI translations and audio. To me, It shows the title and video description translated to my native language (and I hate that). AFAIK creators can disable that, but some people might like it.
you can change the audio track in the settings
cool video. I think your insight is interesting. or perhaps said more descriptively, what's interesting is your desire to openly explore interpersonal relations as an engineer. thanks for posting.
While much of this is true, it often behooves the speaker to lead with a thesis and expand later on in a linear and somewhat concise way. There will always be details, but those are best left unexplored until the larger point is received. If the listener never understands the thesis, is it important that they understand the details? As an engineer I frequently have to remind myself to compose my thoughts, lead with a thesis and address knowledge gaps as they arise. Instead of leading with technical details or the head/tail of my research and progressing from that point. Generally, people understand me far better when I practice this approach.
I'm sure your videos would benefit from this approach. I'm also reasonably certain that your viewer retention would go up if you did. While engineer-to-engineer head/tail of research explanations typically are fine... they can be mentally taxing when doing massive context jumps (e.g. different channels on YT).
How long did you study engineering in school bro? I'm interested in this field so i ask.
Life is great.
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