Drop the Pink Elephant: 21 Steps to Personal Communication Heaven

Title

Drop the Pink Elephant: 21 Steps to Personal Communication Heaven

Author

Bill McFarlan

Type

Non-Fiction

Call Number

153.6 MAC

Always find yourself misinterpreted? Not understood? Are you frustrated with the people around you, as well as yourself? There could be pink elephants in your speech!

Review

What exactly is a Pink Elephant? Pink elephants are the unnecessary negatives that clutter your conversation and meaning, sending out the wrong signals to anyone you communicate with.

McFarlan gives common sense strategies to look out for pink elephants and how to get rid of them to make your words count for more.

For example, words of denial – ‘not’, ‘no’, ‘did not’ and ‘nothing’ are pink elephants. We automatically look through them for the real meanings, such as ‘I don’t mean to be nosy’, ‘I don’t mean to be rude’, ‘No offence’, ‘We have nothing to hide’.

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Recommended by Norlin Naim, NLB librarian.