"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying," wrote Emerson. This explains that ancient wisdom: "The true master teaches without words." Funny thing for a writer to say!
We can tell when someone is "real." Authentic people inspire trust with their presence. This is what makes whatever they say or write so appealing. The meaning is always embedded between the lines.
Speaking
We're always speaking. We talk to ourselves, we have relationships, we make presentations at work, we talk on zoom calls, some of us are teachers, consultants, or public speakers. Learning to listen helps us speak with heart.
We're always writing. We text, send emails, write memos, we turn papers in at school, craft reports at work, we may write for a living as a journalist, a blogger, we may be a novelist or a screen writer, a biographer or, in my case, a veteran ghostwriter and now a biographer.
KEY INSIGHT: The value of what we write remains invisibly present in what we edit out.
Some of us communicate in public forums. We may guest on a podcast. We may host our own show. We may be interviewed for a news segment. What matters, increasingly, is being unscripted. People want to hear from a real person, not a media professional.
