I have discovered very interesting speech ‘Martin Pistorius: How my mind came back to life — and no one knew’ from TEDxKC on last august. Actually It’s not the speech literally, because he cannot speak since he was a child resulting from the illness, so he use the program dictation his word automatically. This is the introduction of the clip.
‘Imagine being unable to say, "I am hungry," "I am in pain," "thank you," or "I love you,” — losing your ability to communicate, being trapped inside your body, surrounded by people yet utterly alone. For 13 long years, that was Martin Pistorius’s reality. After contracting a brain infection at the age of twelve, Pistorius lost his ability to control his movements and to speak, and eventually he failed every test for mental awareness. He had become a ghost. But then a strange thing started to happen — his mind began to knit itself back together. In this moving talk, Pistorius tells how he freed himself from a life locked inside his own body.’
The program has read his word very naturally, and the talk is very smooth. Even though he cannot use his own voice to communicate; his emotional expression also appears all over the clip through his eye about his sadness from his hard time or his hope from the help of the technology and the supporting from his family.
Now he has recovered from the serious sickness, but his speaking ability has not brought back yet. When he talks about the speaking with his own voice, He reminds me about the ability to the non-verbal communication, which may be loss in the modern technology or the social media. I have heard a lot about the misunderstanding from the words in the social media or the wrong interpretation of the writer’s purpose, such as intention to make a satire instead of the discrimination has caused the hot temper for the mass instead of joke.
The voice as he said is also reflecting the personality of the speaker. I have never thought about it before. When you say something, there is also an expression of your inner mind to the world. Then I thought that's why we call somehow speaking with the word 'release', especially when you talk to your friend about someone in a bad way, haha. I guess his heart might be overwhelmed with a lot of emotions.
That make me think about the heart of the communication is also about the sincerity to express by your own heart and voice to touch the audiences’ minds, which may be lost in our lives nowadays.
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My question is:
Do you think your personality also expressed in your voice? Or does the voice help us in order to communicate?
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Undoubtedly, I think the voice of people can also implicitly express their personality like body language. And I believe that general people who are not deaf and mentally normal have common senses to understand some indirect signal from others’ speech. But some people can interpret profoundly if they study behavioral psychology a lot; for example, some sellers are likely to understand the characteristics of buyers through this means to evaluate their customers. In the meantime, they may understand people from people’s body language too.
ReplyDeleteYou're very thoughtful person! Anyway they help us with limited potential, some who understand this knowledge can express in the way they want others to understand. But I agree with you, this kind of knowledge simply help those in the business to understand the customer basically for their purpose.
DeleteYou're very thoughtful person! Anyway they help us with limited potential, some who understand this knowledge can express in the way they want others to understand. But I agree with you, this kind of knowledge simply help those in the business to understand the customer basically for their purpose.
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