Category: Communication
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What Is Critical Thinking in Psychology? A Clear Guide for Curious Readers
Critical thinking in psychology is the practice of asking better questions about human behavior before accepting the easiest answer. It is not the same thing as being suspicious of everyone. It is not the same thing as being the least impressed person in the room. More usefully, critical thinking is a way of slowing the…
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How to Become a Better Reader Without Turning Books Into Homework
A person walks into a bookstore with the wonderful, doomed ambition of changing their life by buying seven books at once. One novel they have been meaning to read for years. One poetry collection because the cover looked haunted in the right way. One essay collection because someone online used the word “essential,” which is…
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Executive Communication Coach Services
Effective communication is crucial for the success of any organization. As an executive, it’s important to consider the impact of your communication style on your team, stakeholders, and the overall success of your organization. What’s vital about putting more thought into your organizational communications is to impress three things: first, that you are in fact…
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Intrapersonal Goals: What is Intrapersonal Communication?
Care is a fickle love; dolling it out to others as drizzled honey over slices of toast yet stickying your hands in the process. Take a sharpie and dash a line on the back of your hand if these statements apply to you: I find it easy to care for others; I derive pleasure from…
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Meta Communication: Discussing How to Discuss and Improving Your Clarity
Nothing humbles me more consistently than the amount of struggle I maintain with the simple act of expression. Communication is among the most difficult of virtues to come to terms with, and further yet meta communication. Each day, each relationship, and each environment requires attunement to a new way of communicating. Take, for example, the…
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Communication Strengths and Weaknesses to Improve Your Daily Relationships
Be courageous when reason fails you be courageousin the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts. Zbigniew Herbert Who hasn’t wished they could communicate themselves more clearly? Whether shyness, anxiety, lack of vocabulary or language, lack of knowledge, lack of confidence… there are hundreds of influences that may impede one’s ability to communicate.…
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Understanding Behavioral and Emotional Strengths for Satisfaction
Looking at yourself, it can be difficult to have the mindfulness to consider what types of situations your parsing is especially effective for. I think often about how mismatched strengths are causes of strife – I am an excellent organizer; however, pair me with another organizer and we are bound to be sluggishly incompetent as…
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Thoughts on Editing for a Literary Magazine
If you or a loved one have considered editing for a literary magazine, you may have run into the following observations and frustrations: Hordes upon hordes of submissions that may or may not relate to your magazine’s stated mission Incorrectly addressed or missing cover letters Submissions and submission responses from readers (typically men) which harass,…