Effective Communication: Tell Them What Time It Is, Not How to Build a WatchWritten by Susan Dunn, MA, Psychology, Emotional Intelligence Coach
We’ve all had people like this working for us, or with us. People who couldn’t communicate their knowledge in a way that was effective, engaging, informative and interesting. What a waste of talent!Do we have an obligation to make what we say interesting? No, but if we want people to listen to us, we must! Do we have an obligation to make our knowledge accessible and informative to others? No, but what use is it if we don’t? Did you ever work with someone who knew their stuff but turned you off so completely you didn’t want to stick around to get valuable information or assistance you needed? In fact you avoided them and so did other colleagues and customers? Do you have someone working for you now who is just so academic about things, even though you know they’re an expert, you can’t ever ‘get’ anything that’s useful in real time? Or maybe you know someone who simply bores you to tears, droning on and on, making you hunt through a bog of verbiage for what you need. This is person who, when you ask what time it is, tells you how to build a watch. Way more than you needed, or wanted, and such a waste of your valuable time. Definitions Pedantic - Boringly scholarly or academic; narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned, as in showy or vainglorious. Erudite - Possessing or displaying extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books; profound, recondite (difficult for others to understand or comprehend) or bookish learning; to gain knowledge or understanding of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience
| | THE CHOLESTEROL MYTH- IT COULD COST YOU DEARLY Written by Tunji Akinseloyin
Heart disease is number one killer in US today. Who is at risk? Well, consider this: NBC television reported in Feb 10 1997, that risk of cardiovascular disease starts early in life. In fact, research at Louisiana State University found that risk of heart disease starts early -as early as 5 years old! What is major cause of heart disease? High cholesterol? Well NOT NECESSARILY. If high cholesterol were major cause of heart disease, bear and other hybernating animals should have been extinct ; their cholesterol, at least during winter, is over 350! Research work by Dr Matthias Rath, a cardiovascular expert and an associate of Dr Linus Pauling, proved that major cause of heart diseases [heart attack, strokes, clogged arteries] is POOR NUTRITION! In this groundbreaking work, Dr Rath found that supplementation with a combination of some special vitamins, minerals, amino acids and antioxidants could prevent, reverse, and correct cardiovascular problems. Over many years of poor nutrition, lessions develop in arteries. The body deposits lipoproteins at damage sites to repair damage. This constant "tear and repair" results in layers of cholesterol deposited in arteries, eventually blocking them. And consequencies as we know, is tragic. Dr Rath's research has been comfirmed by other researchers. Dr Passwater's research in 70s found that risk of strokes and heart attacks is not so much as amount of cholesterol in bloodstream, as POOR NUTRITION. He also found that some vitamins actually raise good cholesterol levels. In addition, epidemiological research has proved that people with low blood selenium, are 2-3 times at risk of heart disease than those with adequate selenium levels.
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