I had to talk to someone on the phone today at work, and I needed to make them come around to my way of thinking. I realized that I am fairly decent at what I guess what would be referred to as suggestive or persuasive speaking. For some reason, when I get into the mode of trying to make people think a certain way, it just flows like water. I think this is something that anyone could easily learn, which makes me think there is probably already a litany of books on the subject. I think I will take a look around and try to find a good one and read it. If there isn't one, perhaps I will begin the process of writing one myself.

I suspect that what I will find is a bunch of books on how to sell shit, or how to be a salesman, but that's not what I am looking for. I do not consider what I am referring to to be salesmanship, although I suppose the techniques could be used for selling things.

I am not sure why I am so obsessed with language lately, but I find myself tuning in more and more each day to the words people use and why they use them. I found myself today using the word "ideally", over and over again, and each time I said it, I stopped and thought to myself, why the hell do I keep using that word? I also probably overuse the word "theoretically" at work. I consider myself as having a fairly decent vocabulary, but I guess there are only so many words that apply in certain scenarios, so people tend to use the same adverbs and adjectives repetitively. Working with servers all day, I deal a lot in theory. I am constantly talking about what would, could, or should happen , I suppose that is why I use the word theoretically so much.

More on this subject later, for it is Friday, and there are brain cells to kill.