Whatever your name for it is…its absolutely huge.
The Big Apple. Gotham City, the city that never sleeps, etc. We moved to Manhattan 10 days ago, after a cross country drive (another blog for another time). We are in temporary housing in a furnished apartment in Battery Park city. You won’t find it on any old maps as the building I am currently writing this in stands was built on land fill from the construction of the world trade centers and a few other buildings. Its nice, I see the Statue of Liberty every day on my walk to the subway.
The subway is amazing. If you can read a map, you can get pretty much anywhere in New York on the subway. Every morning I get on and marvel at the new cast of subway characters I get to ride with for the following 20 minutes. I have to stick out…blonde and smiling business guy.
Yeah…I moved again. We average a move a year…good times. How else will you see the world? On to a different front-
um /ʌm, ʌ̃, əm, ə̃/ [uhm, uhn, uhm, uhn]
–interjection (used as an expression of doubt, hesitation, deliberation, interest, etc.)
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
The use of the word “Um” in speech. Have you ever listened to someone and noticed that they said um a lot? I know personally that I have an internal “Um” meter that impacts my impressions of people. Think of it this way, the amount of intelligence I believe you have could be shown to be inversely proportional to the amount of times you use the word “um” in a ten minute conversation. Now I wouldn’t want you to believe that I think that people that use the um word a lot are not smart, in fact, I have seen brilliant people use it constantly.
My issue is that I am an ADD guy. Short attention span…hey look at the shiny light!
(1 hour later)
Back to the blog…oh yeah. Its really hard for me to follow an um user. I check out, I can’t stay focused. However, I have noticed that deliberate and strong speakers keep my attention. They don’t allow me any signals to break away from the conversation until they want me to. If you have run across seasoned speakers or incredible professionals, you know what I mean. When I speak in front of groups, I try to emulate this. Rather than say um, I’ll leave it silent. Nothing makes people listen harder than a brief moment of silence. You have them…
So try not to say um. If you do say um, feel free to pause in the conversation to grab my attention back!
BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER!
The Big Apple. Gotham City, the city that never sleeps, etc. We moved to Manhattan 10 days ago, after a cross country drive (another blog for another time). We are in temporary housing in a furnished apartment in Battery Park city. You won’t find it on any old maps as the building I am currently writing this in stands was built on land fill from the construction of the world trade centers and a few other buildings. Its nice, I see the Statue of Liberty every day on my walk to the subway.
The subway is amazing. If you can read a map, you can get pretty much anywhere in New York on the subway. Every morning I get on and marvel at the new cast of subway characters I get to ride with for the following 20 minutes. I have to stick out…blonde and smiling business guy.
Yeah…I moved again. We average a move a year…good times. How else will you see the world? On to a different front-
um /ʌm, ʌ̃, əm, ə̃/ [uhm, uhn, uhm, uhn]
–interjection (used as an expression of doubt, hesitation, deliberation, interest, etc.)
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
The use of the word “Um” in speech. Have you ever listened to someone and noticed that they said um a lot? I know personally that I have an internal “Um” meter that impacts my impressions of people. Think of it this way, the amount of intelligence I believe you have could be shown to be inversely proportional to the amount of times you use the word “um” in a ten minute conversation. Now I wouldn’t want you to believe that I think that people that use the um word a lot are not smart, in fact, I have seen brilliant people use it constantly.
My issue is that I am an ADD guy. Short attention span…hey look at the shiny light!
(1 hour later)
Back to the blog…oh yeah. Its really hard for me to follow an um user. I check out, I can’t stay focused. However, I have noticed that deliberate and strong speakers keep my attention. They don’t allow me any signals to break away from the conversation until they want me to. If you have run across seasoned speakers or incredible professionals, you know what I mean. When I speak in front of groups, I try to emulate this. Rather than say um, I’ll leave it silent. Nothing makes people listen harder than a brief moment of silence. You have them…
So try not to say um. If you do say um, feel free to pause in the conversation to grab my attention back!
BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER!
2 comments:
I've been wondering when you'd post a blog. You are one of the smartest people I know and I love reading your crazy blogs.
Oh, and um, I'm going to be so self-conscious about my ums now...thanks a lot.
I can't wait to hear more stories about your experiences in NY. Love and miss you guys!
Miss you too! I'm back on track now, I'm going to post more often (hopefully)!
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