Mar
6
2009
by admin on March 6, 2009
Yesterday we broke into presuppositions by defining the phrase and talking a bit about what they are. Today we are going to create a sharper focus and talk about the categories that presupposition can be broken up into. While we do this, we can also talk about what exactly they “DO” to the mind of the communication recipient when they are use in conversation. So let’s get right into it… Imagine that you wake up one morning and you find yourself in a room… no doors, no windows… nothing but a light at the top. You are hungry, thirsty, scared… [...]
Mar
3
2009
by admin on March 3, 2009
Today we are going to talk about how to increase congruence in your body language display and the message you want to send. I will cover 3 of the most often used emotions on a daily basis so that you can see how to work with these on your own. Now there are 8 basic emotions per Robert Plutchik’s Psychoevolutionary Theory and they are: Fear Anger Sorrow/Sadness Joy Disgust Acceptance Anticipation Surprise Robert Plutchik developed what is known as the Psychoevolutionary Theory of emotion and this has turned out to be one of the most influential classification systems for categorizing [...]
Feb
19
2009
by admin on February 19, 2009
Literally, the most difficult challenge in communication is in ACCURATELY representing and EXPLAINING the concept or feeling that you are currently experiencing. Without extensive analysis and research, the average person is completely unaware of how INACCURATELY they are communicating their thoughts. Thanks to evolved processes such as heuristics, metaphor and analogy, stereotypes and predictive categorization that occur during experiential and language processing, we are still able to make functional sense of each others communication. Suffice it to say though, that when you are describing a night out with the girls… The visual, auditory and somatic/kinesthetic representations that your mother is [...]
Feb
17
2009
by admin on February 17, 2009
In revisiting part 1 of our series, effective listening is really about gathering information and the trick is in focusing your attention in a way to acquire the appropriate information. So what is the appropriate information? To help focus your mind let’s define “appropriate information” as whatever information will help advance your own interests in the communication. To think this way, you will need to: [amprotect=2, 3] First define what your interests are in a particular communication. Second determine what types of information can help you to advance in it. If you don’t do this your primitive, subconscious mind will [...]
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