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Communication: the 7-38-55 rule

By Jack Posted on July 26, 2024 Posted in communication Tagged with mixed messages, people skills, psychology

Self-tutoring about people skills: the tutor mentions the 7-38-55 rule about communication. In a situation that involves communicating feelings, the person receiving the information gets 7% of the meaning from the words they hear, 38% from the tone of the …

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Communication: diplomacy

By Jack Posted on January 18, 2020 Posted in communication

Self-tutoring about a modern trend: the tutor visits a case of delicacy. On Young & the Restless – yes, the famous soap opera – I heard Nick Newman say, “Lately, there’s not much overlap between the plan and what actually …

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Communication: the dismissal “Get lost.”

By Jack Posted on January 13, 2020 Posted in communication

Self-tutoring about communication then and now: the tutor reflects. Back in the 70s, “Get lost” was oft-heard. It dismissed its target, meaning “go away, I don’t care about that, I don’t want to listen to you, etc”. It wasn’t diplomatic …

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Communication: images vs text, part 1

By Jack Posted on October 24, 2019 Posted in communication

Self-tutoring about display communication: the tutor continues about images vs text. I begin in yesterday’s post comparing text with pictures: if a picture is worth a thousand words, why is literacy important? Consider the word “harvest.” Writing it is instant, …

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Research: text vs pictures, part 0

By Jack Posted on October 23, 2019 Posted in communication

Self-tutoring about display communication: the tutor shares some ideas. In the 1970s and 80s, when I was in school, books for early readers typically had, more or less, a picture per page. As reading advanced, pictures thinned out. A novel …

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