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Hello, everyone welcome to another DailyJim it's august 17th 2022. It's Wednesday, it's Wednesday.
Today I want to talk about talking.
I want to talk about how I like to talk. Yeah, I think that's good. Um I really like conversations. I like communication, I really like talking, I like listening, I like language, I like How information transmit from one place to another back and forth and. Just think about that the other day and came up again today. You know, I've been thinking how to frame what a lot of the work it is that I do and keep coming back to this concept of communication now, it's not so foreign. I studied intercultural communications in college, that was my official focus of the international studies degree. Before that I studied electrical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, which is kind of the communication of electrons and communication through computers, programming has a lot of, you know computer communication, and yeah, I think I had a minor in spanish, I've learned quite a few languages traveling, spanish, Swahili, some french and Portuguese, a little bit of german, and so communication has been kind of this through fair, I don't even know the right word has been this kind of line that has run through a lot of what I've done throughout most of my life and. I keep coming back to it because it was, I think of the other day, it's just what's one thing that I just really, really nerd out about that. I just really geek out about this thing, and I was like, is it emotional health? Maybe, you know, I get excited to learn about fitness and some of these things. Um is it leadership? Yeah, its leadership in an extent. Um but communication, yeah, it's talking, I really, really can geek out on communication.
The intricacies of communications such as interjections and sound effects and, Speech acts and many of the things that I learned in one of the linguistics classes I took and I just love it. I get really excited. Still after, 10 years of pretty much focusing on it, exclusively, I still feel excited to learn about communication, especially as it relates to emotions, how we're feeling, what we're thinking and many of the things happening internally to us, but also how it interacts with the body. Um so how does the body communicate to us, how it's feeling through tension or through where the eyes are moving or through posture or through breathing patterns or through. Certain movements or through lack of movement or through little giggles like that. So the tone of voice and there's so many things that can come through in communication and I just, I continue to really enjoy it. And so I think today was a day when I was really reflecting on that and I can't remember was it a couple of weeks ago or something? I had a pretty hard conversation with someone and I got down to the point in saying, you know, like saying, I was struggling just wondering, you know, how am I supposed to go out there and sell what I'm trying to sell with the idea being, you know, do these exercises and you will be like me. And I said, but I'm living at home in my late thirties. I don't have kids, I don't have a wife, I don't have a house, I don't have income, I don't really have money, I don't have this. I'm not in super great physical shape. I said, who wants to kind of be like me right now? I said, I mean and I said it somewhat flippantly. I said, you know what? I have this, You know, I guess I still have the ability to communicate how I feel.
And then later I paused on that and I thought, huh?
Maybe that's a skill I really appreciate and other people might appreciate as well, because at the end of the day.
So many other things are outside of our control and maybe that's a skill that, like I said, other people want and something that I actually feel really proud of. That if I could get to a point where I I don't have any of those other trappings of life and yet I feel confident my ability to still communicate regardless.
Maybe it's, I don't know, you could probably feel the uncertainty in my voice now. Like excitement and confidence. But there is a slight I don't know if that actually makes sense uncertainty there, but some giggles out of I don't know, discomfort, but also amusement. Um yeah, so I'm just excited to kind of sit in this a little bit longer. This idea of focusing on communication and specifically communication of emotion, how it relates to the body into the brain, but more so kind of the language and linguistic stuff that we put around it. The framing, the physical and the almost digital analog and digital representations. Anyways, I'm tired and I'm rambling and I hope you enjoy the ramble. Some people have told me they actually like it. You know, a little weird. What what if what a weird but also comforting feeling for me to hear that some people like when I'll just kind of improv and go on this this this rambling ramble, on that note. I'm gonna head to bed and I will talk to you tomorrow before we take a break for the weekend. Alright, take care.
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