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It is possible. Robert Anton Wilson in one or two of his books gives an exercise similar to this - consciously choosing to remove all absolutes from your conve
by chippy 12y ago
It is possible.
Robert Anton Wilson in one or two of his books gives an exercise similar to this - consciously choosing to remove all absolutes from your conversations. Something like never saying "I am tired" but rather "I feel tired" and not saying "That is bad" but rather "That activity has badness in it" or something like that! Edits - it's called E-Prime and mentioned in another comment in this thread.
The point is that it would be possible to do it, but it would be very difficult and initially very strange.
- polarix 12y agoE-prime feels more difficult than the exercise hinted at here, namely, removing all trace of first person identity from one's communications. (Though years of intermittently practicing the latter might have had an impact here...) Combining the two at length seems ferociously difficult.
- anigbrowl 12y agoRAW's 'Quantum psychology' is probably the best distillation of those ideas. At first sight it seems like a bunch of hand-waving hippy nonsense, but underneath are some actionable and practical techniques for improving critical thinking and self-directed neuro-linguistic programming (though I can't remember whether he uses that specific term).