Open-er Part IV

How sincere is the word "encourage" to you?

It's been floating around in my head for the past couple of days, and now I've decided that it doesn't cut it for me anymore.

Surely, it's appropriate for any professional conversation, but really, only appropriate for the sake of being professional. "I encourage you to do this." "I encourage to do that." Yah, I can live with hearing this stuff spoken at me.. only if you're my school guidance counselor or something. But what true bud would ever say that goofy word to you? "bro... dude, bro...[exhale]..

...I encourage you to go talk to that girl."

It's all rhetoric. If you want anyone to listen to you, you gotta know it's not only what you say and how you say it, it's also paying attention to how your audience will take and interpret it. [it don't matter how good you know English if you're talking to a Frenchman.] Mold your words from your audience's blueprint, speak that french.

The best way from point A to B is a straight and simple line. Don't work too much on how to talk to somone, just talk to them, it's usually more sincere. More times than not, your listener will take it more to heart.


psh.. "encourage"... geez, so lame.


edit: Read my previous "Open-er" posts for better context on this one. Forgive my redundancy! :)