give a great audience tonight what’s her
a round of applause all right so why am
I here let me give you some background
information
I have Asperger syndrome which is a form
of high-functioning autism what does
this mean it means I was born without
the ability to gauge normal social
expectations I actually had to be taken
out of class and schooled on basic
social functions it is how to make
friends hold an appropriate conversation
and vice-versa
I still struggle with some aspects of
the disorder it’s just failure to make
eye contact but of all the things I
learned these two are the most important
how to be empathetic and not be one side
in a conversation
I am sending here today because I hear
too often whether it be on the news of
some people off the distance fruitless
quarreling on philosophy and not a
simple light hearted disagreement but
bitter arguments that we people polarize
in the end not only is this
counterintuitive the way I was taught to
treat others I like to be treated but
it’s also propelled by destructive force
on his ignorance
I’m sending here today to help empower
you all with some tips to help suppress
this notion of ignorance and by no means
that perfect but I find that you helped
me in my day to day life so to start off
what is ignorance anyway well according
to the Oxford Dictionary ignorance is
the lack of knowledge information simple
enough right
well the Oxford Dictionary does a great
job at the finding what ignorance is we
need to further disambiguated to better
understand the problem at hand
so I’ve subdivided ignorant than two
different types direct and indirect
ignorance first is direct ignorant and
this is literally the Oblivion toward
the correct answer to a definitive
concept like mathematics are a foreign
language how do you overcome it easy you
just learn the concept simple enough
right
it gives a clear definite well-defined
concepts this comes an indirect ignorant
so this is where things get complex
it’s the oblivion toward the correct
answer to an indefinite concept although
Asafa code matters fall underneath this
type of ignorance questions like is it
right to abort a fetus or what’s the
ideal society or what’s the meaning of
life we all with this type of ignorance
each and every one of us not know the
Surefire 100% correct answer toward
concepts we’re indirectly ignorant
– as such it’s impossible to overcome
this type of ignorance but it seems like
we have in our own minds this is because
we come up with our own philosophies to
help compensate for this void in
knowledge your beliefs and ideologies
are all based on social constructs and
personal of experiences if you had in
the past this level personality is said
to be why it’s hard to change someone’s
opinions and keep in mind how I said
it’s only hard to but anyway these
compensations for indirect ignorance
vary from person to person that’s a very
diverse and definitive in our character
it’s what make each and every one of us
different now they’ve disambiguated
these two different types of ignorance
for you I want to ask you which one is
more destructive let’s take a few
it must be indirect ignorance right
never heard this saying better the devil
you know than the devil you don’t know
we as humans aren’t seen to be
uncomfortable what’s not familiar to us
our compensations for indirect ignorance
become our worlds and our outlooks on
life
likewise if someone were to come up to
you and challenge your beliefs they’d
appear to be wrong or even perverse from
their perspective then bitter hatred and
argument and polarization and so you try
to justify a seemingly correct concrete
answer to a concept which isn’t even
answerable in the first place so it must
be indirect ignorance right but it’s not
is it knowing that indefinite concepts
are an answerable definitive concept yes
it is and thirty recognizes principles
what enables indirect ignorance is
destructive ability because doing it
recognizes to be end up sparring one
another as if one compensation others
the correct one so how do we eliminate
this need to argue but the answer is we
can’t completely but we certainly can
channel it my tip to you is to avoid
argumentative debate as much as possible
because that assumes there’s a right or
wrong compensation just a note if these
tips took years to come to me they
should take seconds to come to you sit
down and converse with people with a
conflicting philosophies keeping in mind
their views will disagree with yours
take turns giving of your views in
different subjects ask them how you
think but they think what they think and
you may become more wise in a subject
being able to
from different perspective because
remember how I said that our opinions
are based on our own personal
experiences if we could ask why you
think what you think giving honest
answer and if you don’t know to say
that’s how I think because you do have a
reason why you think what you think it
just may be subconscious I don’t know
maybe just me saying we shouldn’t argue
because argumentative behavior a
non-violent sense can be a beneficial
thing in fact recently I saw a TED talk
with dr. Daniel Cohen about the benefits
of argumentative behavior well have no
fear
a man by the name of Socrates came up
with a method of constructively arguing
known as this is known as the Socratic
method 2500 years ago it’s basically a
form of organized debate but much more
effective than a traditional argument of
war and that it promotes critical
thinking they’re asking questions
furthermore through the cooperation that
do the cooperation it embraces it also
provokes critical thinking and a
possible revelation of a new concept
everybody said it’s hard to change
someone yes it’s hard to change someone
but not impossible and with a Socratic
method it holds a much greater potential
to do so than a traditional argument so
what I’ve done here is I’ve empowered
you all with means to help defect defend
yourself against direct ignorant son
indirect ignorance I encourage you to
set a positive example by using these
tips I just provided to you and chill
this form of direct ignorance and
hopefully others will follow suit with you thank you very much