Frankness of speech has become a fashion amongst today’s youth. The level of frankness in speech determines the style icon of today and not just the dressing sense or hair styling. It plays an important role in uplifting the social image of an individual, a common man and not only an entrepreneur. People are judged not only by their profile pictures or photo albums on the social networking websites, but also by their status messages, comments, etc.
I should better keep my focus on entrepreneurs. These individuals, with better frankness of speech (can’t quantify) are more likely to play the roles of entrepreneurs in various organizations because of their ability to create a culture of openness which is the backbone of any organization. It increases overall productivity/efficiency of a group/organization by eliminating the not required formalities and pretensions and saves lot of time and effort.
We need to be cautious about using frankness in speech, because there is very little demarcation between frankness of speech and harshness. You won’t realize sometimes when your frankness turns to harshness. It comes only after you practice it for long time. The type of people you are dealing with will be an important factor in determining the level of frankness in your speech.
Frank and explicit–that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. – Benjamin Disraeli
Abey John
🙂 well i have the motor-mouth disease. Blab first then think. 🙂
Anmol Rajdev
Great read Abhinav! 😀
I myself come from the same middle class family background that you’re talking about, have personally seen almost everything that has been written about.
Marriage: It was a hard decision to leave a decent pay job and convince my parents that I want to do something of my own. I had advices from all corners to wait for at least another couple of years to set my own company. I had seen situation of my seniors (married) – too burdened to take the risk of leaving their job and start their own thing. Rightly so, it’s not that easy. I knew I had to do this now and trust me, that’s been the best decision I ever took in my life.
Family: I have been lucky here that my parents were by my side. Convincing mom was a bit difficult but Dad had confidence. I had personally decided that I will give myself time till December this year and if it doesn’t work out, will have to look for something else. By God’s grace, all has gone according to plan and almost everyone in my family (including relatives) are now cool with me working on my own. No useless advices from anyone thankfully. In fact, now that I think of it, it’s different ideas that come from relatives on how to make it even bigger, although it gets overwhelming at times, I just now simply reply “Sab kuch karna hai, but one after the other. First things first.“
Flat: Yes, it’s one thing that I personally also would want to get one. But as I said, important to set the priorities and the day would come. Again, it all comes down to how focussed one want to stay as an individual. That day will come too, I know it, my parents know it and in the end, it’s all that matters.