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Fear is powerful. It is able to close our eyes and ears...and, sometimes, even our mouths.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 30, 2020

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

It is interesting to observe, of all our faculties, our mouths are often the last to give in.

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Communication: Improving Communication | Emotions & Feelings @ Work | Humour | Thought Tweets

Biting your tongue just before it expresses something quite right but nonetheless doomed to be poorly received – that’s a good thing.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 20, 2020

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

You can choose to adjust your personality so it is more pleasing and less annoying. Sometimes, the choice involves biting your tongue.

 

Benjamin Franklin

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do."

 

The thicker the explanation the less absorbent the message.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 16, 2020

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

If that explanation you're hearing just don't make no sense and the explanations that follow make even less sense...methinks the person doth communicate too much.


Alexander Hamilton

"The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject."

 

How do we rebuild trust? One small, well-thought-out, personal, positive step at a time.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 2, 2020

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Maybe you care about the damage trust has experienced?

Maybe you want to repair that damage?

Maybe you do not know how?

People know what's going on in my head...my thoughts are important to them...time for my wake-up call.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 1, 2020

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

If you think communication is easy and yours is very successful, you're dreaming.

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Communication: Improving Communication | Humour | Thought Tweets

People pass lie detector tests 2 ways: telling the truth and lying while believing the test won't work.

by Rick Baker
On Jun 22, 2020

The Thinking Behind the Tweet

I am pleased to confirm I have no first-hand experience to prove this is a fact. I am basing this tweet on things experts have written.

Experts say…

  • If one is telling the truth then one feels no fear. When one feels no fear a lie detector will not register any of the automatic physical reactions the body experiences in reaction to fear. 
  • If one does not believe the lie detector test will work then one experiences no fear so, again, the lie detector test registers no ‘fear reactions’.

What’s the point?

There are at least 3:

  1. Belief is a powerful tool…as Napoleon Hill said, “What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
  2. The human body reacts automatically to situations – particularly, stressful situations. However, these automatic reactions can be controlled. There is no more astonishing example than the Navy SEAL example.
  3. Obviously, lie detectors can provide a great deal of great fun…however; we recommend you experience them in places not called the ‘Interrogation Room’.

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Communication: Improving Communication | Emotions & Feelings @ Work | Thought Tweets

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