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  1. You once said, the most dangerous person is one who is articulate.0:00
  2. What would you recommend to a one who wants to learn to speak in a more articulate manner?0:05
  3. Articulate is an interesting word, because if your joints are articulated, and that means you can do things with them, because they're articulated.0:19
  4. They're not one solid, vague mass.0:29
  5. They're differentiated.0:33
  6. And someone who's graceful is articulated, and compelling because they're articulated.0:35
  7. Speech is a form of articulation in that manner, because the act of speech itself is extremely complicated.0:43
  8. It's a very complicated motor activity, right?0:51
  9. It's a very complicated action to dance with your tongue, let's say.0:54
  10. And it is definitely the case that there is no more exceptional form of the capacity to be dangerous than to be articulate.1:00
  11. And one of the things that really shocks me, part of the reason that my son and I and our coworkers developed this essay app, is that young men in1:12
  12. particular never taught this.1:22
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  1. It's like, well, why learn to, why be literate?1:24
  2. Well, do you want to be competent and dangerous, or do you want to be vague and useless?1:29
  3. Because those are your options, and I don't care what your job is, it doesn't matter what you end up doing.1:36
  4. I think, you know, if you're a plumber, great respect for plumbers, by the way, and you're articulate, you can negotiate with your clients, you can introduce your coworkers, you1:42
  5. can make a case for your employees, you can advertise your services, you can think through your problems, you're firing on all cylinders.1:52
  6. In our whole cultures, based on the idea of the supremacy of the word, our whole culture is based on the idea that it is the word itself that extracts2:07
  7. habitable order from chaos and possibility.2:16
  8. And the reason our culture is predicated on that, is because it's a deep truth, and to the degree that our culture actually embodies that, it works.2:20
  9. So, it's a great thing to be articulate, and it would be so lovely if our educators were wise enough to communicate this appropriately to young men who are striving2:32
  10. forward, and to let them know in no uncertain terms that if they want to make themselves into forces to be contended with, that there's no sure route to that2:49
  11. than an exceptional poetic literacy.3:01
  12. Now, it's not like young people don't have an intuition of this, there are reasons they admire rap musicians, for example, who are often extraordinarily articulate in their performance and3:05
  13. their capacity for spontaneous poetic utterance.3:16
  14. And certainly, the greatest people I've met, including great warriors, you might say, are great in no small part because they're articulate.3:20
  15. I know a former special services, special operations soldier, Jocko Willink, some of you might know about Jocko, he's got a pretty decent online following, and he's about four feet3:31
  16. wide and about three feet thick, and he's one tough son of a bitch.3:47
  17. I'll tell you, you don't want to mess with him, and he knows perfectly well and is very capable of articulating the fact that his success as an eminent warrior3:51
  18. is in no small part dependent on his ability to communicate.4:05
  19. Because he could communicate well, he could listen to the men who were under his command.4:11
  20. Because he was articulate, he could explain to his superiors the situation on the ground.4:17
  21. Because he was articulate, he could make a case that the men under his command who were deserving would be promoted.4:23
  22. Because he could think in an articulate manner, he could plan strategically and not lose battles.4:31
  23. Okay, so that's the case for being articulate.4:39
  24. And what's the alternative?4:42
  25. You want to be in articulate?4:44
  26. You want to say ah and like and mmm and pause and stumble and be unable to formulate a strategy, be unable to elucidate a vision, be unable to compel4:45
  27. and convince other people to entice them with your articulated vision of what might be?4:59
  28. You want the opposite of that?5:08
  29. That's why would you want that?5:10
  30. You would choose awkwardness over grace?5:13
  31. That's...it's preposterous.5:20
  32. It's beyond foolish.5:23
  33. And I cannot understand for the life of me why this case isn't made in a compelling manner, particularly to young men.5:25
  34. And I know it's not being articulated to young men because they're dropping out of the educational realm in droves.5:31
  35. And it's unbelievably sad.5:40
  36. So how do you become articulate?5:43
  37. Well, by paying attention to what you say, that's a good start.5:49
  38. And what do I mean by that?5:55
  39. I mean pay attention to what you say.5:58
  40. So you can think of this as an analogy.6:07
  41. So imagine that you're trying to walk across a swamp and the swamp is murky.6:14
  42. But you know there's a path.6:20
  43. You know there's a path of stone under the water, but it twists and moves.6:21
  44. And if you stay on the path, you won't drown.6:28
  45. The crocodiles in the swamp won't devour you.6:30
  46. And as you walk forward, you can feel with your next step where the stone might be.6:33
  47. And then you feel it solid, then you take that step and then you do the same thing with your foot again.6:41
  48. You search and you find out what's solid and you step on it and you move forward in that manner.6:46
  49. That's what you do with your words.6:53
  50. It's the same thing.6:56
  51. You feel and you feel, is this the right word?6:58
  52. Is it the fact that I'm uttering it, putting me together and making me intact and stronger?7:06
  53. Or is it tearing me apart and making me disillute and weak?7:13
  54. And you can learn to do that.7:18
  55. I learned this in part from reading Carl Rogers, who's a great clinician.7:20
  56. And Rogers believed that the integration of language and action was a necessary precondition for operation as an effective clinician, that you had to align what you said with who7:24
  57. you were.7:42
  58. And that one of the things that your clients would be evaluating you for was that capability.7:43
  59. And you might say that someone with that capability manifests themselves as genuine and trustworthy.7:52
  60. And more than that, I would say also as compelling and interesting, although that can be gamed, but the entire combination that emerges out of the domain of articulate communication8:01
  61. can't be gamed.8:18
  62. It's not easily.8:19
  63. You feel your way.8:23
  64. I noticed 40 years ago when I started thinking these things through that much of what I said actually made me feel weak.8:25
  65. I didn't know why exactly, but sometimes some of the things I said didn't have that effect.8:35
  66. They weren't accompanied by a sense of shame, let's say.8:41
  67. They weren't accompanied with a sense of vulnerability.8:45
  68. They were solid.8:48
  69. And at the beginning, that was probably only about 5 % of what I said.8:50
  70. The rest of it was instrumental.8:53
  71. It was language I was using to get my way in the manner that Tammy described when she introduced me tonight.8:55
  72. There was an arrogance in my use of language that had to do with the desire to attain proximal victories, right?9:02
  73. To appear smart, let's say, to win an argument, something like that.9:08
  74. A very different idea than merely feeling my way along to see what word was appropriate for what moment.9:12
  75. But you can learn to do that.9:19
  76. And you can listen to yourself.9:21
  77. And you can stop humming and hawing and using like and you know and fillers.9:23
  78. And you can take the time necessary to craft your words carefully.9:29
  79. And you can practice merely saying what you believe to be true.9:35
  80. And you can read.9:43
  81. And you can read great writers.9:45
  82. And you can write.9:46
  83. And you can write about what you think about the problems that obsess you.9:48
  84. And you can become articulate as a consequence.9:54
  85. And there'll be nothing about that that isn't the adventure of your life.9:57
  86. And so it's a moral endeavor in some real sense, right?10:02
  87. To become articulate is to become the master of your own tongue.10:05
  88. And to become properly articulate is to make the word divine.10:11
  89. And to treat it in that manner.10:23
  90. And to decide whether or not you believe that it is the case that the divine word creates the order that's habitable and good.10:25
  91. And if you do believe that, well, if you don't believe that, then what do you believe?10:33
  92. And if you do believe that, well, go all in.10:38
  93. See what happens.10:44
  94. See what happens if you become articulate.10:46
  95. I'll give you one more small example.11:05
  96. Tammy touched on this in the introduction too.11:07
  97. She said she'd learned to pause.11:10
  98. You can pause.11:14
  99. It's a prayerful pause in some sense.11:16
  100. When you're in a discussion with someone, you can ask yourself.11:21
  101. They might present you with a question or a conundrum or a proposition.11:25
  102. And instead of responding with what you know to be right, so to speak, you could just ask yourself, what do I actually think about that?11:29
  103. But it has to be a real question.11:38
  104. It has to be the kind of question that you'd pose to someone you didn't know.11:40
  105. It has to be a question predicated on the idea that you might not know who you are.11:44
  106. And that you could ask.11:48
  107. And so someone will present you with a question.11:50
  108. You think, okay, what do I think about that?11:53
  109. But you have to want to know the answer.11:58
  110. And then the answer will make itself known.12:00
  111. Because that's how thought works.12:03
  112. And then you can just communicate that answer.12:05
  113. And if you do that, you'll be interested right away.12:08
  114. You'll be interested in the person that you're talking to.12:12
  115. And if they do that to you, they'll be interested too.12:15
  116. And then if you both do that, you'll have an interesting conversation.12:17
  117. And if you have an interesting conversation, you'll both grow as a consequence.12:20
  118. And that's actually the pathway to growth.12:24
  119. And you just wait.12:28
  120. You can wait.12:29
  121. You can open yourself up to the possibility that what needs to be said will make itself manifest.12:30
  122. If that's what you are striving for.12:36
  123. If that's what you're asking for.12:42
  124. And then you can merely communicate that.12:44
  125. You have to abandon instrumentality to do that.12:47
  126. So one of the reasons Joe Rogan is so successful, by the way, is that that's what Joe does.12:50
  127. He just asks questions.12:57
  128. He doesn't try to get something from his guests.12:58
  129. He's not trying to become more famous.13:03
  130. He doesn't need any more money.13:05
  131. There's no instrumental utilization of language in his discourse.13:07
  132. He's just a humble, long head, in the most profound sense, who would like to know more than he knows.13:11
  133. And who asks all the stupid questions he can think up.13:20
  134. And it turns out that he's actually very, very smart.13:25
  135. And very well educated now, after talking to hundreds and hundreds of people and listening.13:27
  136. And so the stupid questions he asks aren't stupid.13:34
  137. And they're questions that are shared by virtually everyone who's listening.13:37
  138. And he takes his listeners along on this process of exploratory endeavor.13:41
  139. And it's the pathway to success.13:46
  140. And the same thing can be true of your life.13:49
  141. The pathway to success is much...13:52
  142. If you're guided by the spirit of honest inquiry and every word you say is reflective of what you believe to be the truth, then the pathway that you walk14:02
  143. on is a golden pathway to success.14:12
  144. And I know that.14:16
  145. I know that to be true.14:18

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