Why discussions are important?

I would avoid discussions no matter what. Trust me I am that introverted. Yet I know they are important, hence unavoidable in life. Sometimes I would join in silence, just to observe others doing it. Often it seems discussions are a waste of time. Bunch of people, get together. They can quickly make it less productive and sometimes even absurd.

Why discussions are important?

But discussions are important. Otherwise, I do not have to write this article. It can boost your confidence in areas you are good at and give an opportunity to see your weaknesses. Make you correct yourself and check yourself with others, in a collective decision making lessening your responsibility. And it can give an opportunity for you to observe some egoic idiots who likes to speak about things that they even do not know and entertain yourself. My advice is to stay silent when it happens, unless someone dies if you do not speak. If latter is the case, you might carry a guilt, which is not even your burden.

Discussions

Who doesn't need discussions and who needs them?

There are some people who doesn't need discussions. I have seen a few. A few of those dark eyed, flying high, crooked beaklike nose and intelligent kind. And I am not sure there is a scale to measure IQ of those kind, they are just too far away from population norm in the edges of the fat tails of a biological curve. They just make scenarios in their minds. Because their minds are multi-dimensional. They can make imaginary groups, like you and me do in our dreams, filled with imaginary people. And have a discussion entirely being silent on their couch. How do I know this? Because I have spoken with few of those. And exactly they would tell you to get a A+ in their last semester, that's how they studied. But for regular people like you and me, we need discussions. As our imaginary power is not that great in making hypothesis to what others think. Humans are not multidimensional by nature whether you liked it or not.

Consider my blog. Majority of what I write came from past experience. Yet significant proportion comes out from discussions. Like twitter thread triggered me to write about Donal Trump and the Games we play. Discussion is a good way to brainstorm easily, as it provides a natural way of diversified ideas. Like I have mentioned earlier, every consciousness is unique in their own way, so the randomness would be maximum in a discussion.

Values

In discussion, we share our thoughts. There are many other ways to share these thoughts, like writing them down, in a book or a blog. It would not create immediate reaction like when you are faced to face with someone talking. But I consider even a blog comment a mini discussion. And mind you these are valuable. Even if you do not know, this is why google and social media rank posts accordingly higher if people chose to comment. More discussion more value. Why?

Human thoughts are valuable. And only "relatively true" value there is. If you trace values of anything you will see its rooted in someone's mind as a thought at some time. This is a magical fact I had to dig out with mindfulness. So, if discussions share thoughts, underneath we do trade our values. We can consider this as a mini market where; I share my valuable thoughts with a group that is willing to share their values with me. We might or might not come into a conclusion which are the most valuable thoughts, but essentially this is what happens in basic form.

I really wonder how we would do if it wasn't for discussions. After all, if our parents did not choose to talk with us, we would be just like cannibals, who took a Wrong Turn 2003