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Tag Archives: communication
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
I usually talk a lot about good communication in my posts but today I decided to change things up a bit. This post is all about bad communication. I see all of these things regularly online and occasionally in person. … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other
Tagged assumptions, bad communication, communication, habits, hostility, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
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Pursuing Meaning
In Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl asserts that we are all driven to find meaning in life. Sometimes I have trouble with this concept as so much of what goes on today seems meaningless. However, I just recently realized … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged communication, Communication Rhythms, Mans Search for Meaning, meaning, Pursuing Meaning, The 5 Love Languages, Viktor Frankl
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Good Communication: The Way Forward
Sometimes I feel like a broken record on this blog. There are a few subjects that I regularly write about, sometimes from different angles but often from the same angles. Communication is one of those subjects. I’m sure I’ve said … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Humanitarian Things, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged communication, Daryl Davis, empathy, Good Communication: The Way Forward, habits, kindness, love, progress, rhetoric, solving problems, understanding
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Tribute to Daryl Davis
Daryl Davis is an incredible person. He has done so much to promote empathy, understanding, compassion, and dialogue on some of the most controversial subjects while simultaneously showing the dangers of fear, assumptions, ignorance, hatred, and rigid ideologies. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Humanitarian Things, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged communication, compassion, Daryl Davis, empathy, leadership, persuasion, role models, TED Talk, Tribute to Daryl Davis, understanding
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The Daily Stoic: “Give People the Benefit of the Doubt”
The Daily Stoic has once again touched on a subject I find incredibly difficult when I’m in the heat of the moment, although I’m pretty good at doing this when I’m observing a situation from the outside. Still, when I … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged assumptions, communication, freedom, interactions, Marcus Aurelius, mental freedom, peace, The Daily Stoic, The Daily Stoic: "Give People the Benefit of the Doubt"
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Hard Times, Good Communication
I once heard Jocko Willink say that on nights before he records his podcast, he tries to get less sleep than he usually does. This keeps his emotions closer to the surface and helps him during the recording. I’ve noticed … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, emotions, Hard Times Good Communication, Jocko Willink, mindfulness
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Back to Basics
Lately, I’ve noticed that I keep leaning to one side when I unicycle, so I’ve gone back to shorter rides in the hopes of figuring out what’s causing me to lean and fixing my form. It seems to be helping … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement, Swing Dancing
Tagged Back to Basics, communication, exercising, fundamentals, juggling, self-care, self-improvement, unicycling
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Communication in Difficult Situations
In The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt says that it’s easier for us to find errors in other people’s thinking than in our own thinking. Lately, I’ve noticed this in myself with regards to communication. I’ve learned enough about communication to … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, Communication in Difficult Situations, emotions, feedback, Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind
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The Real Problem
This is an excerpt from Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss. Here, Voss emphasizes that in any disagreement, the real problem is the underlying issue rather than any of the people involved. Focusing on resolving the issue helps everyone … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Voss, communication, Negotiation, Never Split the Difference, The Real Problem
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Get Rid of the Boxes
I used to label people and put them into boxes. Then I’d immediately accept or dismiss them based on whether or not I considered myself to be under the same label or in the same box as them. Although I … Continue reading
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Tagged assumptions, boxes, communication, Get Rid of the Boxes, identities, labels, understanding
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