When we need to talk about it.

I lis­te­ned to this while wri­ting this post, try it while you read :o)

This is the six­teenth in a series of posts reflec­ting on our willin­gness to remem­ber and the qua­li­ty of that know­ledge. These posts should be read in order of publi­ca­tion. Star­ting with num­ber six, for example, would make no sense to the rea­der. Hap­py reading!

Lan­guage and the tongue. At last! Life is beau­ti­ful. To be able to talk, dis­cuss, exchange, share! Loo­king at my blog, you’ll unders­tand that I take full advan­tage of it. So let’s jump into the subject.

First of all, let’s sepa­rate lan­guage from the tongue. Obvious­ly, lan­guage includes all lan­guages but still has more attri­butes. Lan­guage includes any medium whose inten­tion is to com­mu­ni­cate volun­ta­ri­ly or invo­lun­ta­ri­ly. It the­re­fore includes the deve­lop­ment of a struc­tu­red and sha­red sys­tem of sym­bols, the writ­ten com­ponent of lan­guage, and the spo­ken or mimed equi­va­lent, lan­guage or sign lan­guage. By the way, did you know that there are seve­ral variants of sign lan­guage in the same spo­ken lan­guage?! Talk about efficiency.

Now let’s look at the tongue. I’m sure we all know what it is, but do we know how impor­tant it is in our com­mu­ni­ca­tions? I invite you to watch this video by Vic­tor Fer­ry. Although the title is a bit too fla­shy, you can’t blame him, You­Tube forces it, but the excerpt I’ve taken from it is still pret­ty accurate:

[…] We come to the point that is, for me, the most impor­tant. Even if we were to deve­lop a science of body com­mu­ni­ca­tion, would it help us com­mu­ni­cate bet­ter? Cer­tain­ly not. […] Well, if when someone talks to you, you’re focu­sed on their fin­gers or ears, that means you’re not paying any atten­tion to what they’re saying. It means that you’re not com­mu­ni­ca­ting and it means that they haven’t mana­ged to cap­ture your atten­tion. And vice ver­sa, if when you are deli­ve­ring a speech you are won­de­ring if your hands are in a good posi­tion and your upper lip is in the right place, it means that you’re not in it. It means you’re not focu­sed on what’s impor­tant to deli­ver a good speech and if you want to com­mu­ni­cate better. […]

To be continued…

-Dan­ny

I’m Dan­ny (aka Coa­ch­Dan­ny). I have a pas­sion: humans. Come with me and take this minute eve­ry day to explore what’s going on today and why is it tren­ding. Click here to get your dai­ly thought right on time for break­fast.

Sources: https://solomotivation.com

Trans­la­tion by Abbie Sims: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acsims/

Last Upda­ted on Februa­ry 11, 2021 by Coach Dan­ny