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Originally posted by ARTelevision
Either we free ourselves from the tyranny of words-as-experience or we are never living in the real world. Most of us live in verbal constructions. That is the problem.
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I just read this again, though perhaps it was for the first time.
We must free ourselves from the tyranny of words-as-experience. God damn right.
Substituting description for experience is the single most deadening thing there is. In my training as an Introduction Leader for Landmark Education, I'm trained to
share experiences--to speak them in a way that presences the experience NOW. Sharing is very different from "talking about".
That's the sort of creative speaking I'm talking about--speaking that
intentionally forwards something or causes something. Intentionality is important here, because it's trivially easy to unintentionally cause or forward things, but that has no power.
Master what it is to speak intentionally from a creative space, and you've got real power in your life and the ability to make a huge difference in the world. It could be said that that's what leadership IS.