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Denzel Washington, Welcome to Inspire Vision. Our sole purpose is
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to elevate the lives of others and to inspire you
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to do the same.
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Gotcha, Welcome to the show. Hi, so share with the
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Adia where you're coming from.
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I'm German born and raised. I studied in Germany and Austria.
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I lived in Ireland, Switzerland, Canada, in Germany again and
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now I'm living in the Netherlands. Wow, it makes me
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a true European.
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True European. That's great.
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And tell me a little bit about yourself and you
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know your background because you've you've.
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Moved into it entirely.
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Well, what I find is a fascinating approach to helping people,
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businesses as well as individuals, talking about communications so forth.
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What brought this all about?
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To be honest, it has been that way all my life.
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I'm a person who had called it an early calling.
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This is what I've been doing all my life, and
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I just turned it into a business later on. I
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seemed already as a child, have seemed to have a
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tendency or an ability to help people's words. Let me
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put it like that, and to make sure that they
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find the right word in the right moment, and then
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I'll be at their site when they need to do it.
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So and this is basically in the core of what
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I do. If you are going on stage and you
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have to give a presentation, or you're speaking at a conference,
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or you're just took over a position, a new position
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and you're working with a new team and have to
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win your team over, or you want to you need
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to restructure your client services in your company, and sometimes
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it's you given it to a media interview.
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You have some.
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Words for the press that are hopefully the right ones. Now,
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this is what I'm doing, and I do that in
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three languages, in German and English and in Dutch. And
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I do that mostly on the industry side and less
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so on the political side, to be honest, because I
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think in doing business business communication still has a different
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approach than political communication. And I'll do that form basically
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twenty years now.
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Wow, and let's talk about personal communication, because you know
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what we see going on right now in the world,
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I think has everything to do with communication, whether you
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want to talk about it political or business or otherwise.
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Communication is the key.
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And how many people are finding that communication is not
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working out for them in their personal lives.
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Every communication arts with that. This is the This is
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the nucleus AI back and forth. All the nice idea
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that the words are written or spoken from human to
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human has a very miraculous resonance. Words can kill and
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words can revive. So the nucleus, the core of our
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relationships is how we express it by words. Yeah, what
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we need to start.
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You know what I find interesting is, as I've talked
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to some others, one.
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Of the things we talked about with communication is there's
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really three ways in which we communicate.
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There's the words, whis interesting.
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Some studies show that it's not the hugest part of communication.
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And then you have the body language, and then you
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have the tonality. Yeah, so as we start focusing on words,
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how does that relate and how does that relate to
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the tonality and the body language and so forth? There
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are you kind of including those other two within the
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words themselves.
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Yeah, do you have to because exactly what you say,
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your mouse can lie with the words you speak. Your
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body can't. Your body has already spoken before you, before
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you even also the first word. It's unbelievable how how
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big the influence of body language is. And when there
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is there is something something else what we call para
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verbal communication, like you utter as a confirmation, a vocal
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one or an oh, be called that paraverbal which goes.
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It's a makes out of you know, body language and tonality.
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So you already without saying anything, you are with the
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other person kind of you build up what we call
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a conversational intelligence. You build a resonance, and you need
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to be aware of your or you need to be
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in sync. Let me put it like that, that's the
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best thing. You need to be in sync with your body,
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because your body will always lead right about tonality and
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words and tonality here, I'm a little bit mixed in
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my experience with my clients. There is some of them
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not that great tonality, but great words and the other
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way around. So I'm a little bit mixed here about
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I'm pretty sure that your body language is leading unconsciously,
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subconsciously the way to towards the hearts of other people. Absolutely, yes.
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And you know, it's interesting you talk about intelligence from
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the standpoint of conversation. I mean, we've got emotional intelligence,
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we have just general IQ intelligence and so forth. Now
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you're talking about conversational intelligence. Can you explain to the audience.
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What that is.
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It's basically a three part a three P suit, right.
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It starts part of that intelligence is resonance. So how
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do you build contact with the other person or the
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group you were talking to? The things like how do
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you make sure that they're that you in sending something
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opening a back channel so that the other person wants
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to talk back to you, because you know there understanding
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is not our problem. We understand each other pretty well.
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We just very often do not have any intention to
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follow what is beIN said. So you're by building resonance,
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by making a connection to the other person. That is
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the first step. The second step to conversational intelligence is
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built by relevance, especially in times like these where it
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looks like that everything is either either fake news or
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a lie, or not true or not proven. All these things.
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Relevance meaning the right word in the right situation towards
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the right group. And once you add resonance and relevance,
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you might you might end up with congruency towards So
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there was a certain a certain wave of vipe between
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you and the udiens that has to do as well
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with emotional parts and with the facts and figures parts.
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So in the mix out of these two probably helps.
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If you only build up a resonance and emotional connection
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without relevance, you might be seen as a nice person
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on stage, but without having a foot in reality. If
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you are only irrelevant but not resonant, you might be right,
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but no one will listen. So you better start with
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the resonant part on top developments and you might end
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up with conversational intelligence.
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Okay, so really, and then between individuals, and that's where
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I really want to focus is between individuals. You know,
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I've looked at it from different perspectives. I took a
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course in communication and they talked about the very same thing,
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as far as you know, affinity In other words, how
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do you feel about.
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The person and so forth?
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And then do you have something common that you can
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talk about that reality type of thing. And then obviously
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the way that you communicate are you willing to communicate?
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And again, now we get into the words that we use,
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and let's talk about that.
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A little bit. What are the effect of words?
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We know that body language has a huge amount sometimes
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tonality can to but what are the words and how
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do words affect our communication? And how do they affect
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the other person in a way that they either are
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truly understanding or they're getting triggered and all of a
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sudden they're not really hearing what you're saying because they've
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got so much stuff going on in their mind.
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Here's a couple of things you were mentioning already that
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play an important role. Here trigger is one thing, and
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the other one we have something in common. Now there's
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a communication phrase for that, temarema. So you're always interpersonal.
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You start with something both communication partners know when we
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let's let's take a very simple sentence, it has been
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raining in Utah today. Then Utah is the thing that
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both of us know. Okay, this is the common the
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common denominator we have. But the news will be, oh,
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it has been raining in Utah. So these two things
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together building coming ground. Oh yeah, Utah. Oh you know
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where Utah is, you live there, I know where Yoda is.
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I want to go there. Okay, And there has been
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a certain weather condition today. That's the news. So our sentences,
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our words are should should be built on both of them.
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If you speak to a person only in things that
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person does not know or cannot relate to you, will
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you will end up with zero understanding and even less
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emotional understanding. Right. If you just build common ground on
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the things you know, but do not add something new
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to it, you'll be perceived as probably boring. None of
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these makes you a good communicator inter personally. Right, So
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this makes us.
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Interesting, okay. And so here here's where the reality comes in.
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You know, you said, Okay, it's raining in Utah. I'm
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looking outside and it's going No, it's not. It's sunny,
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it's beautiful. And yet I guarantee you somewhere in Utah's raining?
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Right? So how how you.
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Add words in a way that you do not nullify
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someone's perception of the immediate a situation going on, and
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yet at the same time can say, you know what,
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it's raining somewhere in Utah.
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In making sure that the way you you talk about
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the circumstances for the betther right, let's let's take let's
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take the weather. Uh, it's the best. The best thing
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you could do is always turning turning a sentence into
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a question, when has it been raining in your area
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for the last time? And all of a sudden you
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build an absolutely different report because now I'm giving you
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the opportunity to talk about your personal experience, add it
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with your reality and inform me on something. Now, this
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is this is priceless in communication. So turning something usual
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sentence into a question that is an opening one. So
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a question that not cannot be and it cannot be
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answered easily to thees or no. That is a very
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very huge step forward in interpersonal communication. And it will
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be one of my tips and my advice is to
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if you're in doubt, ask a question.
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Well, yeah, and I think that's so important. I you know,
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as I mentioned to you. I've been in Thailand for
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a number of months. I just got back, and I
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don't speak Thai, so you can imagine the communication that
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goes on.
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So use Google Translate a lot, right, And you probably
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have never had to because you speak all these languages.
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But what I find, even with Google Translate, sometimes someone
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will say something in Google Translate.
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They let me read it, and I look at it
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and I'm going, this makes no sense at all.
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And originally, originally, when I first started going to age,
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I would do that, and I would I would get offended,
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or you know, I would it was just like.
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What are you trying to say?
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And I finally learned that when I look at something
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and I'm not sure that you know that's what you
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really mean, I'll go back and say, in fact, I
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make this agreement with people. I said, you know what,
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if I don't understand, I'm going to ask you, could
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you re explain that to me? And sometimes when they
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do that, and as you say, is I ask a question,
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all of a sudden, it's an entirely different.
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Meaning than what originally I saw.
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And I wonder how many times when we're speaking our
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own common language, where someone might say something to us,
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and we perceive it as something rather than.
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Questioning it.
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You know, can you help me understand a little bit
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more about what you really mean. I'm not sure I
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understand exactly what you're saying.
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when you were speaking with you, the person you would
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talk to when you're speaking the same language. Indeed, in
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misunderstandings are very often way bigger and you're your Thailand
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example kind of sheds light on that. Are you thinking like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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he is speaking English, I speak English. He will understand me,