2 Habits That Underrate Your Voice’s Influence
Critical skills all leaders need to practice
Habit 1: Monotone.
The physiological effects upon a listener and the speaker.
Habit 2: Underpowering.
How your body may be working to keep you alive but at the expense of your voice.
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” J. P. Sartre
We are free because we have the capacity to become angels of our better nature; we are condemned because we are born into contexts not of our choosing and hence everywhere curtailed by limits.
Your voice and the muscular physiology that fuel it have been moulded with precision to account for the language you were taught, and how you should speak it, such as an accent. Bi-lingual children can imitate their primary caregiver’s accent precisely but once passed that developmental “critical-window”, up to the age of six, the ability to imitate, and learn a new language “is steadily comprised from then until shortly after puberty, and is rare thereafter” (Pinker, S, 1994). Your first language’s muscle memory interferes with the language you…
