Your Vocabulary Influences Your Thinking

Having a good vocabulary is underrated. Not only for the external world, but also for the internal one. You can name what's going on inside your head. With clarity. With precision. And that naming itself brings clarity. A lot of anxious thoughts emerge from uncertainty, because we don't know what's happening to us, phenomenologically as well as emotionally. But having a vocabulary doesn't mean going pompous with a thesaurus. People mistake vocabulary for memorising complex words. That's an error. You need to know the right names for the right things, the right feelings. Once you start distinguishing everything accurately, your articulation improves dramatically. You realise that conversation isn't such a difficult thing after all. A person with good conversational skill is always, and I repeat, always well liked. Because knowing how to hold a good conversation also means knowing what to say, including but not limited to which words to use. When you listen to people narrating their…