Pronouncements in troubled times, their speed, foundations, and consequences

Stupidity gives you its opinion.

Intelligence hesitates, gathers information, and gives you its opinion.

The first goes quickly pretending to know about everything.

The latter, ultimately knows about what’s the topic.

This is something we deal with every day at a personal and professional level.

This is of application to, for instance, media as well, since it is human-driven. Find this out boosted by rapidity in some broadcasting. In other cases, they investigate, confirm, reflect, and offer you something factually true. A bit later, truth to be told.

Opinions come accordingly, you can guess.

Those reactions exert their corresponding influence on us all, but also on the perception of our doings.

At all levels.

We all have taken our positions about the electric car, so to speak. You (luckily) can find a vast range of judgments on if it is a good decision, or if its manufacturing process environmental balance leans the tip of the scale on one side or the other. We immediately face it vs. combustion engine cars, hybrids, or new fuels propelled ones. On the go. China is also a great topic for your brother-in-law to feed the family weekend lunch. The impact of tariffs, applied or not, random tax criteria, the quality (or lack) of anything coming from there, and what will the new world order be.?

At a minor size, we can guess the winner of the Vuelta a Espa?a after three stages and all that happened in between.?

We can swiftly conclude what the future, size, category mix, and reigning technologies of the advent of the urban bike are, whether it will be human-assisted, electrically fueled, or any other upcoming technology. Even with a timeline and split.

We all can guess the day and time of the industry recovery. Not only this but the new panorama truffled with merges and acquisitions is already written for some. Straight from the horse’s mouth.

But time is the best notary and memory is weak.

For some, a quick reaction and (not always) opinion can pretend your knowledge and understanding of any discipline or fact. It does not matter how far you are from it.

You can easily support void axioms because it is on the Internet. It is common the case of digging as deep as needed just to find someone stating what matches your daydreams. This also reduces the rest of (counter) opinions to the level of ignorance, fake content, or even propaganda.

The reason, prudence, and intelligence should take you to the other side of the spectrum regarding the caricature I drafted in the last paragraphs.

Getting informed, reading, and considering positively those on the antipodes of your ideas is of great help when building a decisive factor. There are extremely valuable people on the other side of the line.?

Time and calm, not sluggishness, also contribute to a, if not certain, at least a more substantiated opinion. This will place you in the right place and manner to contrast approaches in a polite, respectful, and enriching debate.

The extremely volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) times we are going through, trigger the anxiety to spit whatever you have inside your guts in the belief and hope of hitting the head of the nail. Sadly, this also sparks the chances of mistakes for which you will be well-known and poorly rated.

If you remain silent and calm when it is the right time for it, if you wait for a reasonable amount of stretch to share your opinion, chances are higher of having a well-aimed estimation.

None of us is ready for what we ignore or do not expect. My piece of advice is that you’d better prepare yourself to react than to prophetize, but always on time and in a manner.