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Conversation is meant to benefit self and others. But in an attempt to benefit, you can bring pain to others, which in turn creates pain for yourself. To understand good decorum of speech, we must understand what virtue is, and in order to understand that, we must thoroughly contemplate it. Reflect on your speech patterns. If you find yourself mostly arguing, whining, insulting, and telling crude jokes, then you are obviously not using good decorum. Virtue has many qualities. In conversation, it is gentleness, lack of aggression, and being kind.
The Lost Art of Good Conversation
Sakyong Mipham
Self-knowledge is the root of all great storytelling. A storyteller creates all characters from the self by asking the question, “If I were this character in these circumstances, what would I do?” The more you understand your own humanity, the more you can appreciate the humanity of others in all their good-versus-evil struggles. I would argue that the great leaders Jim Collins describes are people with enormous self-knowledge. They have self-insight and self-respect balanced by skepticism. Great storytellers—and, I suspect, great leaders—are skeptics who understand their own masks as well as the masks of life, and this understanding makes them humble. They see the humanity in others and deal with them in a compassionate yet realistic way. That duality makes for a wonderful leader.
Storytelling That Moves People
hbr.org
You want to win because YOU WANT TO! And if you lose, Coach Cael would simply say “You didn’t want it enough.”
Lessons From Cael Sanderson - Wrestling Mindset
Wrestling Mindset
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