There is a deaf guy trying to communicate with a blind guy.
Boy, this is a real conundrum.
The deaf guy communicates with sign language that the blind guy can't see.
And the blind guy communicates by talking which the deaf guy can't hear.
So neither are getting any messaging across.
This is sort of like every day life, where people communicate talking past each other.
Each may only be concerned with what they feel, think, and have to say.
They don't really care to listen or understand the other person.
It like the blind and deaf guy communicating and neither can hear the other.
Most importantly, we need to put ourselves in the other person's shoes.
To think from their perspectives, and to communicate having in mind to fulfill for the other person--what's in it for me (WIIFM).
In Judaism, their is an important teaching that each person is an entire world unto themselves.
We need to be sensitive to their world and speak our mind, but definitely in their language. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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