I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.
Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
I'm used to being told what to say, but not what to think... that's usually left up to me.
Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.
It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.
I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.
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