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blissfullyecho · 1 year

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Do you have any tips on becoming more eloquent, or a better communicator? I often struggle to find the right words or express myself clearly to others, especially in a work setting. Thank you!

how to become more eloquent + become a better communicator (workplace edition)

reading

try to read more if you don’t read as much or at all— it doesn’t matter if it’s nonfiction or fiction, but if you practice reading, you practice saying thoughts/words/sentences/etc. in your mind as you read which is clear and concise because that’s how the author wrote the book/article in the first place. authors don’t write “like” and “um” and “uh” when they are communicating to the reader, unless of course a character said those words but again, a character isn’t talking to you (the reader), but to another character. like i said, when an author writes, it’s to convey a clear and concise message to you, the reader. when you start reading more, you begin to pick up on also being more clear and concise when you not only read, but also write.

practice common workplace questions and answers.

for example, if you work customer service, what are the common questions you get asked that require a good answer from your employer, coworkers, and clients/customers/patients? think about what you normally have to talk about or answer in the workplace, write an answer down, and practice that answer so you have a quick, clear, and concise answer to that common question.

if you say “like”, “um”, and “uh” — or any other filler word, try to take a breath and slow down when you talk

you don’t have to be quick on your feet all the time and answer in .2 seconds. take a quick moment to gather your thoughts, smile, and then speak. it’s not as awkward as it may feel the first few times you do so. waiting 3 seconds is not that big of a deal. try to catch yourself the next time you are about to use a filler word and just take a short pause.

develop your vocabulary

you don’t have to use diction from shakespeare times, but simple changes such as using words like “ostracized” instead of saying that you’re feeling “left out” or “inquire” instead of “ask” could help make you seem more eloquent. i believe dictionary.com still does the “word of the day” where they give you a vocabulary word, definition, and pronunciation. also, reading helps a lot (once again)!

practice public speaking tips + techniques

even if you aren’t a public speaker, practicing the skills and techniques public speakers use when they talk to an audience would help tremendously if you’re just talking to one person. purchase books on public speaking and search up public speaking advice on youtube for free.

practice on being a better (enter your job title here)

i don’t know what you do for work, but take on training for your profession. go to seminars, networking events, purchase a course online, buy books from those in your industry, or again, go on youtube for free. you have to train to become better :)

spend time with more professionals or people who can speak eloquently

you pick up habits and traits from those you spend your time with so be careful with who you spend a lot of time with.

i hope i helped!

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life-imitates-art-far-more · 2 years

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Charles Meynier (1763 or 1768-1832) "Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence" (1800) Oil on canvas Located in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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pastel-charm-14 · 2 months

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having eloquence

eloquence is the art of speaking or writing in a fluent and persuasive manner, captivating your audience with your words. it's about expressing yourself clearly, gracefully, and effectively, whether you're giving a speech, writing an essay, or engaging in a conversation. achieving eloquence takes practice and skill, but it's definitely something that can be cultivated over time. here are some tips to help you become more eloquent:

expand your vocabulary: one of the keys to eloquence is having a diverse and varied vocabulary. make an effort to learn new words and phrases, and practice incorporating them into your speech and writing. reading widely and exposing yourself to different styles of writing can also help expand your vocabulary.

master the art of storytelling: storytelling is a powerful tool for capturing your audience's attention and conveying your message effectively. learn how to craft compelling narratives with a clear beginning, middle, and end, and use vivid imagery and descriptive language to bring your stories to life.

practice clarity and precision: eloquence is not just about using big words or complex sentences—it's about communicating your ideas clearly and concisely. strive for clarity in your speech and writing, and avoid unnecessary jargon or overly complicated language that might confuse your audience.

hone your public speaking skills: effective communication is a crucial component of eloquence, so practice speaking confidently and articulately in front of others. work on your posture, tone of voice, and body language, and practice delivering your message with passion and conviction.

listen actively: being a good listener is just as important as being a good speaker when it comes to achieving eloquence. listen attentively to others when they speak, and take the time to understand their perspective before responding. this shows respect for your audience and can help you tailor your message more effectively.

seek feedback: ask for feedback from trusted friends, colleagues, or mentors on your speech and writing. constructive criticism can help you identify areas for improvement and refine your communication skills over time.

be authentic: perhaps the most important aspect of eloquence is authenticity. speak and write from the heart, and let your true voice shine through. authenticity builds trust and rapport with your audience and makes your message more compelling and impactful.

#eloquence #eloquent #communication #advice #that girl #pink #pastel dreamer✨

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escapismsworld · 7 months

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"Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence" by Charles Meynier (1800)

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random-xpressions · 28 days

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My eloquence will be found in my silence. Dig deeper into my soul, find me there, to discover the most unheard of songs...

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#silence #eloquence #songs

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bubblyernie · 1 year

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Redesigned Quill!! :D I really cleaned up the original — kept all the core elements and vibes but this one is just cleaner and less confused lol

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justavulcan · 6 months

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Backgrounds with Class: Azorius Functionary

I'll be honest: Ravnica has always fascinated me. I was a high schooler when the first set came out, and I was immediately consumed creating characters for the setting. Now that we've actually received my long-awaited crossover, I thought it would be nice to write a love letter to the setting in the form of another Backgrounds with Class series. After all: some guilds have natural class choices tied in, from a conceptual standpoint. Boros and Fighter, Izzet and Wizard, Selesnya and Druid. But guilds aren’t class-restricted, and so I wonder what it would look like if you paired every class with every guild background, even the ones that seem at odds, like Izzet and Barbarian, or Gruul and Artificer. So I thought about it, and this is what I came up with. Some character concepts for each class, and each Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica background for each class.

Azorius Functionary

The Azorius Functionary Artificer believes wordsmithing and armorsmithing are both arguments. One is simpler than the other, and he wanted to protect people anyway- paper is too frail to keep lawbreakers away, and anyway he has pretty serious social anxiety. He was a soft lad from a young age, but the inside of the armor is inscribed with the proofs of his determination- dense legalese referring to the crime of assault and the many degrees, qualifications and punishments therefore.

The Azorius Functionary Barbarian is walking proof not everybody can stay aloof from the laws and their consequences. Still, the law is a labyrinth, and a labyrinth is always pleasing to the mind of a minotaur. Legal assistant and debater extraordinaire, her wild temper (which she comes by naturally; her parents both have severe anger management issues) is still bordering on uncontrollable, with occasionally regrettable drawbacks to her career- and the rare boon, as that kind of steep and genuine passion sometimes can stir the hearts of even Azorius legislators.

The Azorius Functionary Bard finds that the Senate is as much a forum for performance as any concert hall, even if it’s less musical. The eloquent may always find a home there, even if their love is less of the law they defend and more the intricacies of the debate- for those who would put their word to the trial like this, there’s no greater thrill. This kind of thrill-seeking has always been part of this bard’s makeup- talking himself into and out of trouble has been his modus operandi since he grew up on Tin Street, looking for kicks that didn’t cost him a zib.

The Azorius Functionary Cleric is actually wildly unsuited for the adventuring life- at least at first. To this vedalken legal assistant, every part of putting the law into practice the hard way is miserable except the rush of adrenaline. However, given the opportunity to take the law from paper to practice, to legal theory to reality, they jumped at the chance- and their confidence is growing by leaps and bounds. As no gods lay power before Ravnican clerics, their ability to enforce the law by thought and spell grows only with their conviction, feeding their addiction to testing the law’s power on the street.

The Azorius Functionary Druid tends to the owls and horses the Azorius senate leans on for their messenger and enforcement capabilities. Drawn to the freedom of the owls and their calling to fly far with the Senate’s decisions clutched in their talons, this centaur found her way to tending stable and owlery alike. Like the horses they resemble, she prefers to know where her next meal is coming from, and the stability the Azorius offer goes a long way toward meeting that goal; besides, she has a natural gift with the animals that the human tenders can’t match.

The Azorius Functionary Fighter was once a riot squad trainee, favoring a staff and shield for their crowd-handling capacity. After requesting a transfer out of the more authoritarian and frankly oppressive new prison, he was glad to hit the streets again, only called out for the most extreme of circumstances. He’s good at keeping his head, and a lifetime of navigating the frankly byzantine halls of Azorius beaurocracy has lent him more subtlety than the average head-cracker.

The Azorius Functionary Monk is a practitioner of the Azorius arts of ectomancy- unknown to many, the Azorius are as skilled as the Orzhov at binding spirits to service, particularly the posthumous wojek as protectors of the Living Guildpact’s uneasy peace. While many favor necromancy for this undertaking, this ectomancer handles this magic in a more personal manner, binding spirit to flesh and serving proudly as avatar of the spirit he binds. While he still studies the discipline of mind and body necessary to bind an astral self, however, he serves meanwhile as a personal assistant and sometime bodyguard to a public prosecutor.

The Azorius Functionary Paladin is walking proof that it’s not uncommon for the most ardent of the Azorius’s lawkeepers to be motivated by personal history as much as duty. She has sworn before all the courts and Isperia herself that her vengeance will follow the law- a stricture she dares not bend, lest it cost her the means by which she pursues her revenge. Whether this is against the Rakdos or Gruul for the cost of their reckless savagery and destruction or the Golgari or Dimir for their scheming, she faces these foes in the fields they’re least equipped to meet her- Rakdos and Gruul in the court, Golgari and Dimir on the battlefield.

The Azorius Functionary Ranger is an oddity. It is a rare thing that one with the blessing of Trostani herself leave the Selesnya conclave, but when she did so, the ripples fouled her relationship with the Conclave forever. Still, she’s one of the Azorius’s preferred ‘inter-guild liasons’ to handle guilds more concerned with the growth of living things than the tomes of the law. A certain civic-mindedness is at the heart of her motivations, one that was drawn to the order of the Azorius over the more naturalistic structure of the Selesnya.

The Azorius Functionary Rogue is a creature of the library and courtroom, not the street. She’s well-versed to take the measure of others, provide research and assistance for legal precedent and even take the case herself. She’s a natural socialite with a guilty pleasure for roaming far from the areas meant to actually contain the party, getting a taste for other people’s homes and personalities from what she can glean looking into their possessions. After all, a home is like a mind, and both lay out their secrets if you know how to look.

The Azorius Functionary Sorcerer is walking proof that if the law is a process, it would follow that sometimes that process has byproducts. Sometimes those byproducts are unintended legal interactions needing to be tied up, and sometimes the heiromancy that the entire guild leans on to enforce their will is concentrated into people by happenstance. Son of a long legacy of lawyers, public defenders, senators, and research assistants and sought after by precognitives and lawmages alike, he has a lot to live up to if he’s to fit his talents into the ticking mechanism of the city.

The Azorius Functionary Warlock is motivated by an uncommon passion for her work. Goblins are usually a chaotic element in Ravnica’s extensive cityscape, but this would-be arrestor has nothing but law on the mind. Having made a deal with a being of pure celestial law and keen on the Azorius’s new surveillance-heavy attitude towards law enforcement, this warlock is nevertheless more the threat with blade and spell than administration and legislature. Her intimidating bearing and uncompromising mindset promise to make her a legend among Ravnica’s law enforcement, and she takes to the title of lawmage with enthusiasm. (this particular warlock was a creation of a friend of mine; their initial thoughts and character art can be found here).

The Azorius Functionary Wizard was a member of the Sova column. The motivation for their transfer was as emotional as logical, and consequently an uncharacteristic move. Skilled as vedalken sometimes are in the delicate arts of calligraphy and magic both, the wizard recently put in for a transfer of department to the Lyev column to serve as a lawmage. Their motive was less than logical, though- to keep an eye out for a recent friend, a warrior from the Gruul Clans who showed them uncertainty that anarchy was the right path for her.

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j-august · 6 months

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There is not so bitter a reproach on earth as silence, for it always seems to refer the guilty to their own hearts, whose eloquence seldom fails to fill up the pause very little to the satisfaction of the accused.

Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer

#quote #quotation #Charles Robert Maturin #Melmoth the Wanderer #reproach #bitter #silence #guilty #eloquence #pause #accused #satisfaction

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poligraf · 5 days

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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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postcard-from-the-past · 8 months

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Eloquence Pavilion, Pagoda of Literature in Hanoi, Vietnam

French vintage postcard, mailed in 1906

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callmecruise · 2 months

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#accounting #classic #sales #finance #entrepreneur #economy #ecommerce #commercial #startup #poster #ne #eloquence #friends

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jrich103 · 3 months

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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight. — Ajahn Brahm

#Ajahn Brahm #soul #spirituality #silence #kindness #eloquence #clarity #calm

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1introvertedsage · 9 months

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When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert! The cure for pain is in the pain. In Silence, there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. ~Rumi~

#Rumi #never give up #pain #purpose #see #Silence #eloquence #pattern #mirror #life #reality #learning #truth #seeing #LHA #1introvertedsage

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euesworld · 2 years

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"Her eloquence is unmatched, her passion desired.. on a bright and sunny day, she is still the heavenly fire. If it were to rain flower petals, they would not burst into flame.. no, they would softly drift from the clouds as I say her name below."

Oh, the beauty of such a Queen - eUë

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elegantzombielite · 8 months

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"Action is eloquence."

William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (23rd April 1564-1616)

#athoughtfortoday #william shakespeare #actions #eloquence #actions speak louder than words

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random-xpressions · 1 year

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Eloquence alone never connected two souls. There's something more deeper and inarticulate that bonds two souls together. Whatever it is, I'm an ardent seeker of it. A firm believer in a language that exists beyond the pales of words, where I'll be heard even when I fall absolutely silent...

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#eloquence #soul #connection

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