Conversing matters

Do you appreciate that that time spent in talking about things that matter is well spent? Does your lived experience tell you this?  And yet you somehow go along with the notion that it is action not talking that is paramount.

Here are thoughts that may help you to see that talking is action. For it is through conversing that ideas are born and developed and brought to fruition. And that it is through the relationships which are fostered that success, however measured, is achieved in any enterprise.

Just what is conversing? See here for an elaboration of this remarkable idea:

        From Latin  con versare – to turn or dance together

Do you like this?   

For it implies that that we dance our worlds into being. Just what this means when people choose to converse may astonish and delight you!

There's much more on this idea on this site. For now consider:

“Since our earliest ancestors gathered in circles around the warmth of a fire, conversation has been a core process for discovering what we care about. It’s how we’ve always shared our knowledge, imagined the future, and created communities of commitment. Innovation and change can often be traced to people conversing informally in living rooms, cafés, kitchens, and church halls. Consider the sewing circles and Committees of Correspondence that helped birth the American Republic, as well as the cafés and salonsthat spawned the French Revolution. The U.S. civil rights movement was born through conversation in people’s homes and churches.” 
                                                                             Juanita Brown

"Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards." 
                                                                         Theodore Zeldin

And yet …  

Would you agree that it is astonishing that these ideas are so little recognized as being fundamental to our business and personal lives?

And that conversing is amazingly under appreciated as integral to how organisations actually function? 

In some business circles its significance is well understood. See "The ability to converse should be a basic building block of organizations' here.

Might much be gained from becoming more aware of these basic premises about how we habitually relate to each other, and to ourselves?

"Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor."                                                               Seneca, Roman philosopher