By the way, this is my first post here. Please feel free to comment on style, presentation, tags, and anything else, in addition to pointing out anything that’s confusing and suggesting additions. Also, it feels to me like this needs some kind of conclusion or summary or some other point at the end, what do you think? Thanks!
I thoroughly enjoyed this post, AND find it to be very useful. Looking forward to reading more like this!
Personally, as a meetup organizer, I actually might also want to try practicing this skill with a friend(s), where one person plays the “monologuer” and the other person practices politely halting them. I think after a couple rounds of that, I might actually have the skill internalized at a level that I can easily utilize it when the situation demands.
Unless this is all original research, it would be nice to see the references. Even if the ideas are all yours, surely other people faced the same problems and solved them in some way. Save your readers some googling and link to the relevant ideas. You might also learn something from these links.
How much peer reviewed stuff about appropriate interpersonal interactions is there, really? And if it isn’t peer reviewed, then there’s almost no reason to think it is more likely to be true simply because someone printed it somewhere.
In short, cut some slack for a valuable contribution.
Thanks, both of you. I wish I had references for this, but this is based on my experience as a professional teacher. I have 10+ years experience, starting with martial arts in high school, then running a dance studio, and now designing and teaching classes on software security. I’m sure I read some of these items somewhere, but I can’t recall where anymore.
Grice (1975)‘s Cooperative Principles of Quantity and Mannerlinguistically explain why what Mike calls ‘monologs’ are inappropriate to conversation.
He doesn’t provide suggestions for how to handle situations when the principles are not followed, however, so discussion is most productively geared towards “add[ing] to this list.”
By the way, this is my first post here. Please feel free to comment on style, presentation, tags, and anything else, in addition to pointing out anything that’s confusing and suggesting additions. Also, it feels to me like this needs some kind of conclusion or summary or some other point at the end, what do you think? Thanks!
I thoroughly enjoyed this post, AND find it to be very useful. Looking forward to reading more like this!
Personally, as a meetup organizer, I actually might also want to try practicing this skill with a friend(s), where one person plays the “monologuer” and the other person practices politely halting them. I think after a couple rounds of that, I might actually have the skill internalized at a level that I can easily utilize it when the situation demands.
Interesting stuff, though missing references.
Unless this is all original research, it would be nice to see the references. Even if the ideas are all yours, surely other people faced the same problems and solved them in some way. Save your readers some googling and link to the relevant ideas. You might also learn something from these links.
How much peer reviewed stuff about appropriate interpersonal interactions is there, really? And if it isn’t peer reviewed, then there’s almost no reason to think it is more likely to be true simply because someone printed it somewhere.
In short, cut some slack for a valuable contribution.
Thanks, both of you. I wish I had references for this, but this is based on my experience as a professional teacher. I have 10+ years experience, starting with martial arts in high school, then running a dance studio, and now designing and teaching classes on software security. I’m sure I read some of these items somewhere, but I can’t recall where anymore.
Grice (1975)‘s Cooperative Principles of Quantity and Manner linguistically explain why what Mike calls ‘monologs’ are inappropriate to conversation.
He doesn’t provide suggestions for how to handle situations when the principles are not followed, however, so discussion is most productively geared towards “add[ing] to this list.”