congruent conversations

September 14, 2008 · Filed Under normal madness, stress-FREEDOM · Comment 

Robert Scoble’s “Naked Conversations” was last year one of my most valuable sources of inspiration  to start this blog. Om Malik and Robert Sapolsky talk on his blog about the effects of stress on us:

http://scobleizer.com/2008/09/04/a-stress-free-morning-with-om-malik/

The tone quality was so poor that my un-American ears could  grasp only 70-80% of the words spoken – but at least 100% of the body-language “words”  :-)

While listening to these people talk about stress-freedom with their wrist-watches and cell-phones on and advertizing their books and sites I was automatically analyzing the incongruencies between their words and their body-language.

Until I realized that there was no incongruency at all: their body language was congruent with what they were really doing:  advertizing their books, their websites, their insights, their persons – and NOT stress-FREEDOM.