Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.
Interpretation
Communicating clearly forces you to confront your true thoughts and ideas.
This quote emphasizes the importance of precise communication. When we are required to articulate our thoughts succinctly and clearly, we are compelled to examine what we truly believe and mean. It suggests that vague or cliche expressions can hinder genuine thought and understanding, while clarity leads to deeper engagement with ideas and proposals.
In practice
In a business meeting when discussing project proposals.
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
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