by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I often hear people speak with great certainty. Further consideration, however, reveals almost no certainty.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n People like to speak with great certainty. I write those words because I often hear people speak with great certainty. If people don’t like to do that, why do they do it almost all the time? Great puzzles for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the certainty in the speech, further consideration often reveals almost no certainty. 1 + 1 = 2. Certainty. Consistency. Aha. We are getting somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “So-and-so believes such-and-such,” said with great certainty. But really? How does the speaker know what old Mr. So-and-so believes? Has the speaker confirmed all this with Mr. So-and-so? Can we talk to Mr. So-and-so on the phone right now and confirm this? Is there any hesitancy from the speaker to call Mr. So-and-so right now? Hmm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I spoke with So-and-so last week and I believe he is leaning towards such-and-such,” said with great hesitancy. Aha. Now we are making progress. This is candor and honesty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People, however, understand that the certain statement is just a short way of saying the hesitant statement. Don’t they? Need I say all those extra words every time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I guess I am not smart enough to understand that the shorter version means the longer version. I like to hear the words. Perhaps we can take the time and energy to say the extra words and show hesitancy instead of certainty. We can do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I often hear people speak with great certainty. Further consideration, however, reveals almost no certainty. People like to speak with great certainty. I write those words because I often hear people speak with great certainty. If people don’t like to do that, why do they do it almost all the time? Great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,32,477,396,53,419],"tags":[225,154,478,399,174,420],"class_list":["post-4522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clarity","category-communication","category-honesty","category-leadership","category-problems","category-talk","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-honesty","tag-leadership","tag-problems","tag-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522","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=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}