The Power Of Words
A statement can create an expectation that continues long after the conversation ends. This title focuses attention on language as conduct: the ways naming, requesting, promising and repeating influence what happens between people.
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Read through your own communication habits. The practical power of words becomes visible when a sentence changes an agreement or clarifies an intention, rather than when language is treated as a supernatural substitute for action.
A question to explore before reading
Which promise has your language created that your behavior has not yet honored?
Keep this question alongside your own experience as you compare the perspectives in the library.
Explore the subject first.
These original journal essays offer a way into related questions.
Your Words Can Commit You Before Your Judgment Arrives
Make Your Words Carry the Decision You MeanA perspective for your reading
Read through your own communication habits. The practical power of words becomes visible when a sentence changes an agreement or clarifies an intention, rather than when language is treated as a supernatural substitute for action.
A question to carry into the book
Continue this line of inquiry with WHAT YOU SAY IS WHAT YOU GET. Does your usual language describe a choice or avoid making one?
Build your next reading connection
- WHAT YOU SAY IS WHAT YOU GET — Words can turn a vague thought into a commitment that other people respond to.
- CYGURU CODEX — A codex suggests a body of ideas intended to be read in relation to one another.
- CYGURU MATHEMATICS OF ENERGY — Numbers can function as measures, symbols or a language for organizing meaning.
