why this

In the eternal flow of posts, tweets, newsletters, articles and - of course - blogs, among many many other formats, I’d be honestly flabbergasted were there no one to actually wonder about the sanity and sensibility of someone contemplating putting fingers to keyboard to, er, set up a new blog. Well, here I am.

Insane as I might partially be, I am not a poseur or graphomaniac who feels an insatiable urge to be read or heard. (In fact, I had been putting off writing this post for months, not having the faintest about how to actually begin.) In fact, my aim is to share some ideas, knowledge and experience from a field I have long been involved as well as interested in: speaking.

It is quite justified to assume I am a gasbag, but beside this, I am a firm believer that there is speaking and speaking. Apart from the production of noise, saying, telling and talking may not have that much in common. There is no speaking speaking without thinking and, joking aside, listening (on the part of both the hearer and the speaker). Unsurprisingly, these are some of the skills I am going to deal with.

Considering myself a down-to-earth person, I’ll strive not to get bogged down in erudite theoretical information, although they will come in useful at times. What I do genuinely revel in is practical application and the ramifications of potential misapplication (well, you shall see), all of these to show a way towards honing and a better understanding of the skill of speaking as I approach it. Wondering what I mean?

Some say that we should speak to be heard. I hold the belief that we should “speak to be listened to”.

Welcome to my blog.