March  11,  2021

SLOW  DOWN

 
Took a speed reading course once ….
First lesson was: people read at different speeds.
Second lesson: there are no speed limit signs for reading.
 
Never took a speed speaking course ….
First lesson: people speak at different speeds.
Next lesson: different situations dictate different speeds.
Next lesson: Put up STOP signs at times
and ask people to tell you what they are really saying.
Third lesson: maybe you’ll find out people 
sometimes don’t know what they are really saying.
Fourth lesson: Ask whether people speed speak at us
so as to slide difficult comments past us.
 
Take an inner speed speaking course ….
First lesson: human beings are thinking in loud
to themselves all their life long - at different speeds.
Second lesson: jotting down in a journal
or on a computer what we're thinking

can really slow our thinking  down.
 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021