Rosano / Journal

4 entries for Saturday, December 2, 2023

flip the power dynamic with the high ground.

[When someone talks down to you, 1) flip it around with 'this way of speaking is beneath me'; 2) assert authority by 'allowing' or 'giving them another chance' to try that again'; and 3) express that you are 'willing to continue the conversation if they speak respectfully'.]

Tagged: relate.

posted to Strolling

helpful despite tourism

How can you confront all that and still be so nice to people?

Interoperability is people connecting, communicating, collaborating.

Tagged: interop.

'Capoeira should be fun' can extend to the game itself; the movement you admire is never in frenzy; always calma, giving time and space, not allowing someone else to make you hyperventilate; how can it feel more like effortless language exchange?

We can even extend this farther: how can everything be fun? more like that? fluid conversation with yourself and the stars.

Tagged: relate, capoeira.