The power of words

I've been thinking lately about how we use words to shape ourselves and how we give words power. The latest iteration of this thought came when I was listening to the song "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" both in Radio and in explicit form when I listened to it on radio before hearing the explicit version something was missing. The word that it was missing was fucker.

In my workplaces I've often been questioned to my lack of cussing. And when I do use it they laugh. I try to stay conscious of what I say and what I write. I don't want to be verbose, but I do want to say things accurately. So I try to say what I mean. The 7 forbidden words, are given power when you don't say them except when you mean them.

One thing I've learned is that to excel in anything you have to do away with the chaff. If you absolutely need 2 hours to make a movie do it but if you can cut a scene a line or a word you should do it. The most effective works perform one job well.

There are uses for multitasking objects, A pocketknife is proof of that, but when I take apart a computer or chop vegetables I don't go looking for the Swiss Army.

The hardest part of this is that leaders to be effective as leaders must communicate visions of how things need to be and need to know a little bit of everything that makes up the parts of the whole. American society tries to turn many people into leaders when we don't need many leaders and tries to fool the rest of us that we are leaders when we are in fact specialists.

All this is through the power of words and what words society decides are worthwhile and which ones are not. People in our society often say "I don't care" and that you shouldn't care about what others think of you, while acting just the opposite. I shape others opinions of me and me into parts of one whole.

I do care.