Symbols: The Future of Communication

We can’t understand what’s not yet understood.

“May we keep an open mind. These are feelings and opinions unique to me. I respect the feelings and opinions unique to you.”

Now imagine if that phrase is something I just drop before I communicate: speak or write.

Symbols: The Future of Communication, Symbol Keys, and more.

Now check example Symbol Key’s below:

🖖 = “May we keep an open mind. These are feelings and opinions unique to me. I respect the feelings and opinions unique to you.”

🐒 = “I’m doing natural movement exercises.” or “My intention is to be primal right now”.

These examples are infinite and unique to each of us, but eventually it becomes larger and larger groups that can get the meaning and jump ahead. Look at our youth, they do this already. I can literally say “eggplant emoji” out-loud and people get the context to whatever we’re doing.

We’ve seen symbols, throughout history.

Think of the pictographs and petroglyphs in the mountains and deserts of native lands. The signs we use to communicate as we commute, whether walking or driving. Consider the emojis that surround your entire digital life.

Words

When we give something a word, we give that thing a specification. This specification is basically the assumption that we’re all on the same page with what this thing is and what we call it.

So we go about living our lives, communicating with ourselves and others. All while assuming our perception of the specified words is the same perception that another person has for that word. This can lead to miscommunication and misalignment. Now, what if I told you, it gets even more complicated with exponential variables when you realize all of these words are attached to emotions and trauma. Which is essentially stored emotion that we could not face.

Experimenting with symbols.

I am practicing my writing. I’m taking notes as I think of things. Sometimes these things are ideas. Sometimes these ideas need action to be taken upon them. Sometimes these ideas are connected to another idea, task, etc. So I’m writing from various sources within the nebula of my mind, and I wish to refer to those sources or guide me in the direction in which I need to take action or organize or return to/remember.

I started adding symbols. So if I was writing down something I need to do — I'd do a box. If I was writing down something I need to do involves an appointment — I'd put a triangle. If I am writing down something that is a note, say an insight to ponder and also consider for my book — I place a bullet point and a book icon.

At first, I was doing it to practice my skill in drawing and penmanship, also with the additional hope that I might become more efficient in my creativity and productivity each day. Then, I noticed that the symbols created a form of communication for myself and a hack for writing & organizing my life each day.

There’s a lot more to unpack here.

Here are some things for us to consider, now or another time. 🐇

• The ancient civilizations that many believe may have had advanced forgotten technologies, wrote in symbols.

• The fact that Symbols have already been providing me value with a new source to communicate, recollect and guide myself, makes me feel like I’m definitely onto something here.

• When I envision an advance civilization, let’s say humanity in 10,000 years (should we make it that far. I’d like to think so!). I see symbols appearing in the air in front of a (human) being, they can communicate a deep message or emotion with just three or four symbols, Rather than many minutes, hours, or lifetimes to communicate.

For now, I’m just gonna enjoy my note taking hack. 😉🙏

Less words, more meaning.

🖖 Be Happy, And At Ease,

Daniel Hanks

Student of Mastery

Teka: Center for Mastery