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  • 6 - Effective Communication

  • from Part II
  • Carol Leather, Independent Dyslexia Consultants, John Everatt, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Book:
    Succeeding and Adult Dyslexia
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024, pp 168-189

  • Summary

    Chapter 6 focuses on effective communication, particularly in the workplace. This is an increasingly essential skill for many jobs, and at all stages of employment, from interviews to promotions to day-to-day task performance. Chapter 5 looked at the problems experienced by dyslexic people at the word and text level. This chapter focusses more on how those underlying difficulties might present themselves in wider contexts, both written and spoken, in the workplace. This can include producing documents, taking notes, attending meetings, undertaking training, following instructions and working with colleagues in different contexts that may require multi-tasking. The chapter, therefore, explores reading, writing and proofreading at work, making notes and taking minutes, listening and speaking at work – including meetings, presentations and interviews. As well as specific strategies for these tasks, it presents an overarching metacognitive strategy, the 4 M’s, as a possible solution to some of the challenges often associated with dyslexia.

  • The Ordinary Meaningful Life

  • JOSHUA GLASGOW
  • Journal:
    Journal of the American Philosophical Association / Volume 9 / Issue 3 / September 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 August 2022, pp. 408-425
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  • It is widely thought that we have good reason to try to be important. Being important or doing significant things is supposed to add value to our lives. In particular, it is supposed to make our lives exceptionally meaningful. This essay develops an alternative view. After exploring what importance is and how it might relate to meaning in life, a series of cases are presented to validate the perspective that being important adds no meaning to our lives. The meaningful life does need valuable projects, activities, and relationships. But no added meaning is secured by those projects, activities, and relationships being especially significant. The extraordinary life has no more meaning than the ordinary life.