to communicate well
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to communicate well
Many communicators try to make themselves look smart. Great listeners are more interested in making their audiences feel smart. They help people approach their own views with more humility, doubt, and curiosity. When people have a chance to express themselves out loud, they often discover new thoughts. As the writer E. M. Forster put it, “How can I
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The difference between internal processors (people who organize their thoughts and then speak) and external processors (people who speak in order to think) probably accounts for a lot more misunderstanding than we acknowledge.
via Jordan Castro
Super practical guidance on more effective business/work communication.
Understanding Social Signals: How Do We Recognize the Intentions of Others?
Jan P. De Ruiterfrontiersin.orgWhat you allow your milieu to feed into your mind is what you will be processing. It is what will carve the pathways of your brain. This is perhaps well-understood, in theory if not in practice.
But it is equally important to consider who and what you are sending output to.
But it is equally important to consider who and what you are sending output to.
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
What is my impact
Closed questions are also bad questions. Instead of surrendering power, the questioner is imposing a limit on how the question can be answered.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
This sentence has saved me hundreds of hours:
“Happy to chat in this medium and we can schedule a meeting if it makes sense.”
nametwitter.com