| Home | Words ! Exclamation Points! Here is some of my amazing writing about exclamation points! It is fantastic! You are going to love it!! S. Hein - Exclamation points are very overused. For me it is just one more example of how people try to "manufacture" feelings, ie manipulate us. I have noticed this for a long time, it seems exclamation points are especially used in the American culture. So I want to call attention to how they are overused and used when there is nothing at all to be excited about. For example, here are a few examples:
The next ones are all from 6secods.org - A site I have had complaits about every since I saw it the first time around 15 years ago.
I have noticed many times how they overuse the word "amazing." I wrote to them about it once and was not at all impressed with their reply. Here is something from a note I left another day on one of Josh Freedman's blog posts. Josh is the creator of 6 Seconds.
Josh, btw, set up 6 seconds as a non-profit. But you would never guess it by looking at how they market themselves and their products and services. - I will collect more of my comments and more examples later.... |
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| Amazing! The people who work for Josh over at 6 Seconds seem to love the word "amazing." Today I searched 6seconds.org for the word amazing. Google tells me there are about 243 matches. 243! Now isn't that amazing? Here is one
I am pretty sure I wouldn't be amazed.... To be fair, as Priscilla's brother liked to say, I checked EQI.org - 8 results and it looks like only 2 of these were from my writing. The others were quotes from other people.. But now after I post this there will be more than 8 amazings haha SH April 26, 2015 - See amazing |
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| May 3, 2015 Wiki Loves Earth photo contest: Upload photos of natural heritage sites in Uruguay to help Wikipedia and win fantastic prizes! The first time I saw this was on a page I was reading about Gus ___ who stabbed his father in the face, then killed himself with a gun. Today when I accidently followed the link totheir contest, I saw this
I am not sure why they spell May, Mai. That isn't even right in Spanish. Note that I accessed this on May 3 - so I am not too impressed. |
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| I happened to take another look at
this today and noticed that Josh said this in the intro: "...or am I just invalidating my own feelings?" So I thought I would suggest a link to my page on invalidation, which I believe is the most comprehensive on the net.... http://eqi.org/invalid.htm And thanks for posting my first comment - sorry about the typos... Also, I would suggest again we look for the unmet need behind the painful feeling. This is one thing that Josh didn't say explicitly. Even with perspective taking, there was still some unmet need which helped cause the painful or "negative" feeling. I believe it is always helpful to identify that need. For one thing it helps us know ourselves. Also once we are more aware of what we need we will be more sensitive to what others need. This is similar to one of the basic ideas in Rosenberg's non-violent communication. I know Josh is not a big a fan of it and I am not a huge fan either, but that is one part of their theory (ie feelings and needs) that I found very useful. I'd like to also point out that some, including me, find it useful to think of anger as a secondary feeling and as such it isn't very helpful of a word. If I say I feel angry, for example, no one knows what I need. But if I say I feel offended, insulted, disrespected, ignored etc. we can get to the unmet need more quickly, and thus to what would help me feel better. I discuss this on my page about anger in case anyone is interested. http://eqi.org/anger.htm Steve Hein first do no harm what if he said he didnt want his parents to know? he didnt want everyone on campus to
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