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While this may be helpful for business people and politicians, I think this isn't great advice for this demographic. A huge skill lacking within this industry (
by sankalpk 15y ago
While this may be helpful for business people and politicians, I think this isn't great advice for this demographic. A huge skill lacking within this industry (and of course I'm generalizing) is that of verbal communication. Wouldn't talking more, much like writing more, help that skill?
- swombat 15y agoNo, not at all. Silence, like body language, is an essential part of "verbal communication skills" - that's the point I'm making. You can no more learn "verbal communication" without learning to use silence than you can learn "driving skills" without learning to look in the rear-view mirror... (poor analogy, but you get the idea)
- pohl 15y ago"Music is the space between the notes." - Claude Debussy
- losvedir 15y agoWouldn't talking more, much like writing more, help that skill? Yes and no. I think "talking more", in the sense of finding more occasions to speak: more meetings, more conferences, etc, would be helpful. However, I don't think using more words during each of those occasions would improve your verbal communication skills.
- hv23 15y agoTalking more doesn't necessarily mean you're saying more. To use another popular adage that drives the point home: brevity is the soul of wit.