When Words Change Someone and You Don’t Even Know It
listen to this John Townsend story about a throw away comment that changes the trajectory of someone’s life in a short elevator ride
Tagged: words
same words. different meanings.
Words mean things. And different people use the same words to mean different things. This makes for either mass confusion or fierce conversations. The context of our own self-talk (internal conversations) colors everything we hear and read. These are some recent phrases...
finding better words that connect
Words mean things; they have a lexical definition. But that’s not all. There’s more! Words carry emotions based on one’s experience and context, both nature and nurture (personality bent and family upbringing, respectively.) And effective communication is all about finding the words...
