- It is often useful to bring up strongly related past story B in response to current topic A
- The problem is that they come up with a weak related C
- The old man has not observed A closely enough recently to recognize that A and C are far apart due to the low resolution of the horizontal axis. - [See figure under Cognitive Resolution.
- He has a low cognitive resolution, so he can’t recognize that he’s saying the wrong thing C.
- He thinks he’s doing B.
- People with high cognitive resolution neglect it because they feel that “C is a story that has nothing to do with A”.
- The old man is angry at this, saying that “B is beneficial, but he doesn’t understand it and neglects it.
- He’s angry that “old things have value, but young people don’t understand that.”
- This is the problem with the old man not being able to distinguish between B and C.
Other problems are also likely to occur
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Saying the same thing over and over again
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Assume you don’t know something the listener already knows and explain it. This is not unique to the elderly, although it tends to occur in the elderly.
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People who don’t feel their words have been received repeat the same thing.
- People who keep insisting on the same thing at meetings.
- she is saying something misguided on the subject, but he/she does not feel that his/her statement has been accepted, so he/she makes the same statement repeatedly.
- The hand used to deal with the situation is to take it once and write “let’s discuss it later” on the whiteboardParkingLot
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Assume ignorance and give explanations to women mansplaining.
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