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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  It's a 30-year-old reference, sorry if you didn't get it. I'll explain. The word 'try' inherently implies that you don't know whether or not it will actually succeed.
"I will try this" means something different from "I will do this". There is no implicit "Gee, I might fail. I don't know if I will succeed. I don't know what I'm doing." Instead, you simply do. You don't fail, because you are aware and knowledgeable already. You do it, and you do it right, because you can.
If you're busy trying, you spend half the time holding yourself back because you're uncertain. |
Well, everyone does interpret words different from others, depending on the circumstances. I don't have this connection to 'try', probably because I have no english upbringing.
I always take it as a real miracle that people across the world, with *very* different backgrounds, very different languages, can communicate at all. And thats not all, we even can communicate about quite difficult topics, as long as all are willing to make compromises.
Someone once wrote 'even if a lion could speak, we would not understand him'.
I'm not so sure about this, I think we could understand him *if we want to*. But most people would not want to understand, would not want to try and think from the lions point of view. They would not like to try and think his way, because they think the lions way is not a good and healthy one. And they would end up discussion the meaning of words with the lion, because they think its the words fault.
So, please, have some consideration for those who have a whole different background, try (*GGG*) to understand us even though we use words in funny ways, ways you think that are not good and healthy.
Love you!
Sam