{"id":3876,"date":"2023-05-01T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2023-04-07T12:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:35:54","slug":"whose-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/05\/whose-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Words?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It is important to remember whose words we are discussing. If you mentioned something, we are discussing your words.<\/strong> <strong>If I mentioned something, we are discussing my words. There are ways to back away from our words.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I read the words from the PowerPoint. They were wrong. Simply wrong. 1 + 2 = 4. Wrong. When I questioned the words, arguments began. Finally, a third person said, &#8220;Wait. Those are your words on the PowerPoint. No one made you put them there. You put them there. We are merely discussing them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that instance, the words originated with that other person. In other cases, the words originated with me. No one made me put the words on the PowerPoint. I put them there. They are my words. If they are wrong, I made the mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is possible to step away from my words. It is possible for you to step away from your words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You are correct. My words are incorrect. I was mistaken. Let&#8217;s find the correct words and move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It really is that simple. Own our words. Use them or toss them and find better ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips It is important to remember whose words we are discussing. If you mentioned something, we are discussing your words. If I mentioned something, we are discussing my words. There are ways to back away from our words. I read the words from the PowerPoint. They were wrong. Simply wrong. 1 + 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,32,312,20,25,339],"tags":[322,154,313,142,147,341],"class_list":["post-3876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-communication","category-humility","category-learning","category-meetings","category-mistakes","tag-accountability","tag-communication","tag-humility","tag-learning","tag-meetings","tag-mistakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}