When we need to unders­tand each other.

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

This is the eigh­teenth 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!

Speech, what an incre­dible evo­lu­tion. I some­times won­der how speech has evol­ved. No, but, it’s unbe­lie­vable! How to get there even with a mini­mum of words. A tea­cher from my past made me aware of the fact that the first words were asso­cia­ted with ele­ments vital to humans. For example, some basic words would come from the sound that things made. I guess we could clas­si­fy speech into a few cate­go­ries. Pri­mi­tive speech, struc­tu­red speech?

In my case, I believe that a balance is requi­red when we want to asso­ciate words with concepts. Ano­ther aspect could come from the lack of pre­ci­sion. Final­ly, we could add diver­si­ty in order to create rich speech that allows us to vary the words used to des­cribe an idea, a fact, a situation.

This is where basic know­ledge becomes essen­tial. Kno­wing the level of our inter­lo­cu­tors’ mas­te­ry of speech becomes impor­tant when we want to convey a mes­sage to them. These mes­sages are the basis of our com­mon unders­tan­ding and social consen­sus. How can we come to accept others’ move­ments if we don’t have access to their under­lying reasoning?

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 9, 2021 by Coach Dan­ny