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Feb 11, 2019, 05:27 AM
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Hi Warmup,
I'm placing the incredibly fun complaining schtick on pause to uplift a great Theory of Talk: Sharon Strand Ellison in her work and website. She's the director of the Institute for Powerful Non-Defensive Communication. Her book is Taking the War out of Words.
Here's her examples page from her website.
The cover of her book offers her process for:- Eliminating Defensiveness
- Liberating Honesty
- Building Integrity
- Inspiring Compassion
I now start one of my pet ad hoc projects: finding or making up new words. What if not "defensive" what am I? The words online dictionaries send me to are all "offensive."
So, As a start, I want to walk away from the whole offense-defense mindset.
For now, I'll go with "fair speaking." This was a highly praise trait in pre-Conquest England (before 1066) as far as I can tell. Here's a fitting poem about it:He is foolish who puts his faith in force,
for Fortune makes force fail.
Falsehoods make folly strong,
and make men to be flattered by fair speaking.
Fierce force makes deceivers flee,
false forces make the feeble man famish.
Deceit makes the feeble man tremble,
but firm faith will make falsehood to founder. "Firm faith" could be another term. Perhaps, "firm self faith."
Enough playing with words, for now,
Revu2
Last edited by Revu2; Feb 11, 2019 at 05:40 AM.
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