Author: philipdodson

Hi I’m Philip Dodson entrepreneur co-founder of @Work Hubs and founder of Dodson Commercial I am passionate about revolutionising how & where we work, enabling individuals and business to connect, network and grow. Self-employment within the next 7-10 years will become the norm in the developed world, alongside this will be a co-working revolution. The future is all about sharing, collaborating and helping others to succeed. Find out more – @WorkHubs

Being human

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Being human takes a moment.

Being human takes thought.

Being human takes intention.

Being human means smiling not scowling.

Being human is to be civil.

Being human is to respect.

Being human means giving without any expectation.

Being human means giving others the time to be understood.

Being human means empathy, not sympathy.

Being human means listening, not fixing.

Being human means allowing others to choose for themselves.

Being human means compassion for others suffering and sharing the load.

Being human means seeing all other humans as equal without exception.

Being human means listening without evaluating.

Being human means loving not hating.

Being human means looking at how to make things even better not blaming.

Being human is to be vulnerable.

Being human is what we all could choose.

Being human isn’t easy but it is the gift we all have.

Being human is often hard to put into words.

Deep down we all know what being human is.

Echo chambers

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In our echo chamber.

The ‘ignorant’ are in theirs.

In their echo chamber, they see us as ignorant.

Ignorance isn’t the problem. A different view is not ignorance.

Righteousness is a curse that leads to nothing but hatred, blinkered views and a stubborn resistance to listen, for a fear that we could be toppled from our thrown of being so fucking right and smug.

Leave your chamber, listen to people you believe are ignorant. Remove your own blinkers for a moment, listen without evaluating, the highest form of intelligence and something that we all struggle to master as we never had a single lesson at school, or home, or work, that taught us this skill.

Most of us are so busy trying to convert people and talk about everything from our perspective.

Come together, be patient, try to walk in a while in their shoes.

Hating, evaluating and anger has yet to work.

I know this from first-hand experience, where I grew up in a judgmental environment, with us or against us, black or white, no shades of grey.

We could droo being right and embrace differences, however opposite they are to you. It’s hard. 

After all, it’s just a view. It’s not about being right, it’s about empathy, understanding and civil debate to focus on a future even better outcome that perhaps neither echo chambers could imagine on their own. 

Alternatively, we can close the door on our echo chamber and destroy ourselves slowly with incandescent hate, anger, frustration and blind evaluation without even listening of the ‘ignorant’.

When we judge others, we are actually saying more about our own behaviour, struggles, and hang-ups than the people we judge.