Sometimes you have to read between the lines and realize they may be asking the wrong question. You may have to give an answer they are not ready for or an answer they don't like because they don't understand their problem or they may have assumptions based on mistaken or wrong advise. You may not have to explain how a clock is built but you may have to teach them to read a clock.Listen and understand the question and what the person is trying to understand. If they ask what time is it, they are not looking for a answer as to how a clock is built. Form a connection, Especially if it’s the younger generation asking the more experience generation
Not that far away and not that long ago for me! LOLIn a galaxy far away long ago we were all newbies.
Ignorance can be fixed, stupid can't be fixed. Beginners are often ignorant of things we learned a long time ago and we should be patient and help them learn.
Stupid is going against all warnings and cautions and doing something you know will hurt anyway.
The corollary to that:
Pig-headed is asking several experts for their input and then doing something else entirely.
Sounds like talking to my wife sometimes. Often I'll ask a question and get a totally irrelevant to what I want to know answer. She's sometimes thinking 2-3 steps ahead of the question, but in the wrong direction from the conversation.....Sometimes you have to read between the lines and realize they may be asking the wrong question. You may have to give an answer they are not ready for or an answer they don't like because they don't understand their problem or they may have assumptions based on mistaken or wrong advise. You may not have to explain how a clock is built but you may have to teach them to read a clock.
The corollary to that:
Pig-headed is asking several experts for their input and then doing something else entirely.
Everyone here has been really helpful to me. It took me some time to figure out the different mnemonics that are used. BLO, ROS. Much faster to type but harder to understand if you don’t know what they are.
Is there a ‘Common terms and their mnemonics’ thread?