How do you communicate with yourself

When people talk to themselves, communication takes place within the brain. It embraces their thoughts, experiences and perceptions during a communication event. Behavioral responses on all other levels of communication essentially begin at the intrapersonal level. On this level, the individual forms personal rules and patterns of communication.

Mental models that exist in our heads and which have been programmed help us in making sense of the world we live in. Our own baggage of needs, values and beliefs help us make sense of all the data that comes pouring in through our senses. Thinking is a process of intrapersonal communication, really what is thinking? When your mind asks questions and answers it as well, that is thinking in a simplified manner, which brings us to a very important facet –Questioning.

This Socratic method of gentle enquiry has yielded rich results in various forms of communication. In fact, if there was one major factor behind successful and resilient leaders it is this –They managed to ask the right questions? Einstein famously remarked –“If I had an hour to solve a problem that would save my life, I would rather spend 55 minutes in thinking about the right question that needed to be asked, once I know the right question, I can solve the problem in 5 minutes”, there are questions that empower and questions that disempower! Any prizes for guessing what questions successful people ask more of?

 

I am sure you have been in meetings completely present in the moment, in the zone and you asked a question that made the listeners stop in their tracks, and you knew that was an important turn in the meeting, newer possibilities, focus and energy emerged as a result of that question. Consistent questions that are asked by leaders at the workplace speak a lot about the culture of that organization. Track the questions that are being asked at your workplace, If they are not forward focused and empowering, there might be a dearth of superior evaluations. Questions have the capability to sharpen the focus between proximal and distal goals.

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