{"id":3970,"date":"2010-08-27T05:55:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T09:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2010-08-27T05:55:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T09:55:13","slug":"listen-to-the-words-you-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/3970\/listen-to-the-words-you-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the Words You Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3972\" title=\"watchyourwords\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/watchyourwords.jpg\" alt=\"watchyourwords\" width=\"425\" height=\"316\" \/><br \/>\nYou can learn a lot just by listening to yourself. When you speak about yourself, your creative life, and the works you produce, the words you use can be very telling. Do the words you use share common themes?<br \/>\nWhen I review someone&#8217;s work I listen carefully to the words they use to describe themselves and their work. One person was particularly concerned with mortality, his family&#8217;s and his own, and he kept using words that had to do with time, often in a limiting way. These concerns were reflected in the images he was making but he wasn&#8217;t consciously aware that any of this was taking place. Often it&#8217;s best if these kinds of observations are simply stated, without any evaluation or judgement attached. With nothing more than one important observation, he gained new insight into and control of his life and his life&#8217;s work. Becoming more aware of how pervading his concerns were allowed him to consider his choices more clearly &#8211; actions, reactions, emotional responses, self-image, and the images he made. He felt energized.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve had many similar encounters.<br \/>\nI know that I can learn a lot about myself, simply by listening to how I speak.<br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/downloads\/creativity\/creativity.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find more inspiration in my Creativity Lessons.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/workshops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more in my Digital Photography Workshops<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can learn a lot just by listening to yourself. When you speak about yourself, your creative life, and the works you produce, the words you use can be very telling. Do the words you use share common themes? 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