Think before you Speak

I am gonna post a list of the feedback I received at the Induction later

I thought I will start working on my delta's and try and improve on them.

One of the delta's was "Think before you Speak"

Well... by nature, I like to keep making funny comments which are fairly well received. However the thing with funny is that different perople have different humour sensivities and what might be funny to one person may be irritating to another and outright offensive to some.

I did some research on Google. Most of the links were bad but I found some which had mentioned the Impact of not "Thinking before Speaking"

• http://www.teenadviceonline.org/articles/hurtfulwords.html


• http://peek.thezeroboss.com/archives/004918.html


• http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=657145


• http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/007080.php

One humorous situation also came up.

• http://www.3till7.net/2006/05/28/think-before-you-speak/

Then I found this

• http://www.43things.com/things/view/32520

43things.com is basically a site where people list things they wish to do or have done and they share their experiences in trying to achieve these goals.

One commendable quote from one of the users :

If you just take 5 seconds to think before reacting or speaking, you can save yourself a lot of headaches. Too many people act right away on gut instinct, which is not always smart. You can come off as immature, whiny, selfish, or just plain ignorant, if you just immediately speak or act without thinking about the way you sound or the consequences of what you’re doing and saying (immediately and later on) or even if what you’re saying or doing makes any sense or if you’re just reacting to react. If you would just take 5 seconds to breathe and remember that you’re a civilized human being and not an animal scrapping around in the dirt, you’ll elevate yourself and that’ll be noticed by others who’ll seek to emulate that kind of behavior for themselves. And you’ll eventually learn it as a habit, and remove a lot of stress from your life, and you’ll learn how to talk to and gingerly persuade people to be kinder and nicer to you. You’ll find more peace around you. You’ll make the world a better place.

Makes ya happy. Do it.

I think I have work to do