Communication

Evan on October 20th, 2009

I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is How Can We Talk About Our Spiritual Experience? This is a genuine question for me. I’m not sure we have the language to have the discussion yet. I do think we may be at the point where we can begin [...]

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Evan on July 29th, 2009

I have a guest post on the Philosophy, Psychology and Real Life blog. It is called Empathy and Communication: do we have to have ‘been there’? It challenges the popular idea that we ‘had to be there’ in order to understand. I think this has truth in it – communication is based on experience. But [...]

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Evan on July 18th, 2008

Image by littledan77 There is much advice on blogs about how to get your message across. This embraces advice like: have a good attention grabbing headline, tell stories, be entertaining and so on. This is all sensible, but I’d like to examine it a bit. Sometimes things are the reverse of what we expect. I [...]

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