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Originally Posted by paigetheoracle
Sounds about right to me as well, as I'm rarely happy with being spontaneous because it mostly comes out as gobbledy-gook. I rehearse things in my head but when it boils down to it, what I want to say is rarely what I do.
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When I was a kid, I was always talking and rarely making sense. As an adult, I had trouble stopping. I knew enough to make a little sense, but I didn't really stop and think.
Then, as I've mentioned elsewhere, I became a supervisor and trainer of students, as well as an advisor to a uniiversity's administration and an editor of a newsletter. Suddenly, people were listening to me, quoting me, and acting on what I said. That caught me up short and I started to severely sublimate the thought process that informed speech. I also went from inarticulately blurting out sentence fragments to speaking in paragraphs.
Then, after a few years, things changed and I went back to being inarticulate until I started posting here.
I guess the message is that the process that seems so deeply rooted can be dislodged and replaced pretty easily if you have the right incentive. Does
that make sense?
--lemit
