A Blind Date and A New Discovery

So I am going on a blind date tonight and it is making me un-endingly nervous. So as I sit here and wait for that unavoidable knock on the door, I will tell you a little about my week. Last weekend I made the discovery of the recent BBC TV series Sherlock. I was instantly hooked. The plot was interesting, clever, clean, and uplifting, the characters likeable, and without that usual feeling of most American TV shows that they're just stalling you to get you to watch another commercial. What stands out to me about this show is that while the main character is haughty in his unique talent, he is still kind, compassionate, and loving to his friends (at times in a roundabout way). And just like our first day in communications Sherlock's talent is to observe things that people are communicating without speaking. When he explains the evidence for what he reads on people, the evidence is all there. This has made me desire to be more conscious about the messages I carry as I stated in my previous post. I can also see the benefits of picking up the signals of others. Both for empathetic as well as communication reasons. In our communications class we talked about how communication can help business run smoother, and for individuals to express themselves better. This can therefore help everyone get what they want so that everyone is better off.

Lincoln bLogs

Perhaps a better title for this post would be "bLincoln bLogs". I'm just not a fan of the aesthetics of it in type. Anyway, since brevity is the soul of wit, I will do one better than Polonius. I was prompted to start this blog based on an assignment for my business communications class, however, I had recently been contemplating starting my own blog based on the things I had learned at my college, Brigham Young University, so I also intend for this to be useful and entertaining (and, for me, therapeutic).

First of all, what I've learned is the miracle of a paradigm shift, when the world you see suddenly alters and expands outside the bounds of your previous definition. For example, based on the fact that I always spoke the way that I heard English spoken my whole life, I assumed my skills of communicating were passable. However, the nuances of grammar that have been emphasized in the class thus far have opened my mind to consider that perhaps I am not being as clear as I intended and that a working knowledge of grammar actually is useful.I also feel an increased awareness of what it means to communicate as well as what others and I myself am communicating. This new knowledge and awareness enables me to have new learning experiences both through observation and application. I pay attention more to the way others talk and the way I speak and present myself. It is a refreshing new perspective.

I feel that a blog builds off itself to create a collection of writing from the blogger, so I present this as my first Lincoln bLog in building my Log Cabin.