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How clean is our language? |
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Wink wink... nudge nudge... say no more... Do you recognise some of these sayings? Perhaps you've used one or more recently - as recently as the last five minutes!
That's music to my ears
She ran like the Wind
I'm Heartbroken
It's raining cats and dogs
He's bouncing off the walls
A heated debate
Chill out!
Cool!
You light up my life
My memory is a little cloudy on that
It's like beating a dead horse
Let sleeping dogs lie
Blind as a bat
Yes, they are metaphors. And we use them in every conversation we have. They are a fabulous way of getting complicated messages across or merely speeding up the communication by saying in a few words what might otherwise take paragraphs.
But there may be more to metaphors than we think.
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The value of headlines – What will your first 7 words be? By Andrew O'Keeffe |
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© Hardwired Humans
Headlines fit the instinctive way we process information. Humans are hardwired to make sense of information through a process of classification. We quickly classify ideas, people and situations into categories such as "good" versus "bad", "like" versus "dislike", "us" versus "them".
There are two key dimensions to the process of classifying. First, classifying usually takes no more than a few seconds. Second, our classification is based on the emotion we feel in that first instant.
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Learning Styles – A misnomer or useful business strategy? |
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- What do a German Shepherd dog's ears look like?
- Who has a deeper voice, your best friend or your boss?
- How do you tie your shoelaces each morning?
As you read these questions, there's a high probability that you accessed your memory in three different ways - visually (for the dog's ears), in an auditory manner (to compare your friend's voice with that of your boss) and kinaesthetically (you may have actually gone through the movement of tying your laces).
We all store memories in three formats ... visual. auditory, kinaesthetic. Although every one of us uses all three every day, as individuals we tend to have better access to our memory for specific events, using one of these three modalities.
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What's in a name - Bingo! |
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Not all business-speak is jargon - some of it can even be useful. The trouble is, there's so much nonsense spoken in workplaces these days that it's easy for valuable concepts to be tarred with the "office-speak" brush.
Recently the BBC ran a story on the "business phrases we love to hate". It was not intended to be a survey. However, email responses to the article poured in from all over the world. Here (in no particular order) are some of the 50 terms that were sent to the BBC:
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Not all business-speak is jargon - some of it can even be useful. The trouble is, there's so much nonsense spoken in workplaces these days that it's easy for valuable concepts to be tarred with the "office-speak" brush.
Recently the BBC ran a story on the "business phrases we love to hate". It was not intended to be a survey. However, email responses to the article poured in from all over the world. Here (in no particular order) are some of the 50 terms that were sent to the BBC:
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