European Parliament’s Post

How do you convey small knowledge packages to your target audience? Please have a look to this example: This is how knowledge transfer works. It's great that staff/departments at EU level use such simple but creative methods! Keep up the good work. #BTSF#Organic

My husband and I both studied history. He also earned a PhD cum laude in Medieval History. I do not tell this to boast about our academic training, but to point out the fact that we were trained to have a critical view of the facts, analyze and contemplate them from different angles. Like most people of our generation (We both are baby boomers approaching our mid-sixties). We often laugh at ourselves remembering our naivety in the face of new technologies when we imagined a better society thanks to greater access to information and culture in general. A society in which its citizens would make informed decisions, more responsible and critical of the information received. We both have completely different political orientations, and even opposites, but we agreed on that. I already said it, we were naive. The information as such has always been provided to us for interested purposes, let's not fool ourselves. However, the mainstream media itself (or lack thereof) somehow encouraged reflection and critical thinking. The social structure itself was fundamentally based on interaction, facilitating the exchange of ideas and information, sometimes on trivial matters and other times not. We didn't have that many sources of information, of course. However, the excess of predigested information with which we are bombarded at all hours for self-interested purposes is highly disinforming. It rarely appeals to reason but to emotions. And when someone with enough power controls the information, disasters happen. We've seen it happen before and I'm afraid we'll see it again. We have not become a more cultured and informed society, quite the opposite. A tiktok influencer carries more weight than our own reasoning. If we add to that the fact that many not only school but also university works are generated using ChatGPT, and then passed through another program in charge of "humanizing" it, you begin to wonder if our students really learn something and what kind future awaits us. AI should be a tool, a great tool, but a tool at the end of the day, not an end in itself. Doing some research, I have discovered that there are AI programs to create works of art, write, mathematics, create music, create presentations... Human creativity seems to have ceased to be relevant. And I, a very optimistic person by nature, don't feel that way right now. We do not know what power is behind and what interests guide it. And the apocalypse probably will not not occur because of a cataclysmic natural event. It will be because of a sudden power outage, either because of a gigantic Mass Coronal Ejection, or if someone manages to hack the power plants or because Windows updates something again.

If a story starts at your shoulder and ends at your fingertips, people usually stop listening somewhere around your elbow. It is challenging for individuals to listen to a story successfully. Most people want to control where the story is going and they have already started filling in the blanks about what the story should be about. 🔊 Keep your internal state as a state of curiosity! And don't get discouraged...this is a skill that can be developed with practice.

Here are 2 ways to tell a bad story: ☝️ A story needs to answer who, what, when, where, and why. Take one of these out for a cliffhanger, or for a story in which it's up to your listener to decide how it ends. ✌️ Every story has a beginning, middle, and end. Try shuffling the order around to create an element of suspense that keeps your listener hooked till the end! Which one will you try? Comment below!

Have you ever looked up the word MANIFEST? Manifest, as verb, means to display or show (a quality or feeling) by one's acts or appearance; demonstrate. I feel like in our current parlance, manifestation is connected to some kind of magical conjuring. But, the reality is, we are at the center – pulling the levers – we’re the “man (woman, person) behind the curtain.” "to display or show by one's acts or appearance, demonstrate." Your feelings, words, actions CREATE your reality. Somewhere along the way "manifest" manifested some misunderstanding! Like some other entity, other than ourselves, is in control. What are you manifesting? (Don’t tell us…) just take this post as a prompt to feel it. Feel it as done, in this moment. And put a high five in the comments.

A simple question and conversation started with “R U OK” can change a life. You don’t need to be an expert, just someone who can listen and is a good mate. 4 steps that you can use: 1: Ask “R U OK”? 2: Listen 3: Encourage action 4: Check in

1. Listen intently 2. Repeat back in your own words 3. Confirm that your understanding is correct

The power of WORDS! You can make or break someone. Use word a wisely. Look how the one person “changed” the world. Your words affect people. Use them to attract the right people and to repel the wrong people! Credit for a video on IG: @ninerlove143

Here’s the thing: Run on sentences were never accepted in school not bc they were confusing… They were not accepted because they had the ability to cover up the main issue. This is one of the reason when people are being interviewed they find themselves in a mess. The key to keeping your topic in front & receiving understanding & clarity is to answer 1 complete sentence at a time!!!! Conjunction words are not friend to truth but a friend to confusion. That part!!

People will be misunderstanding you all the time. It can be quite stressful, especially considering that you just want to be heard. Do your best to be clear about things as much as you can. Everything will be okay soon enough. It can be a bit of a hassle, but taking the time to be meticulous and detailed about everything and anything will go a long way for you. It will ensure that you are able to get your message across effectively. This does not mean that you will be understood automatically, though. You may still have to do some explanation, but at the very least, you will just be clarifying things and not give a long lecture. For your part, it is also important that you are able to listen and pay attention to the people around you. It will be quite a time, especially considering that you will come to learn a lot of new things in the process. However, you also need to ensure that the information you are being fed with is verifiable. Otherwise, you will just be making a fool out of yourself.