My God, I saw a program about a man who, like so many, used to \u2018break\u2019 the will of a horse in order to make it comply to the will of his \u2018master\u2019. So mean. So sad. So beastly (and I don\u2019t mean the horse).<\/p>\n
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Then came a book and movie about a \u2018horse whisperer\u2019 who does the opposite. He \u2018breaks\u2019 nothing. Instead, he goes to the level of the horse -a highly noble animal- and actually, just basically asks things. He really communicates to the whole horse. He \u2018suggests\u2019 to the horse, shows his own good intentions, befriends the horse and leads its nature into giving and supporting, which it wonderfully gladly does. This is not a shout-whip-and-break communication. It is respectful. It is of course also not a \u2018normal\u2019 communication, which would be something like \u2018horse, do this\u2019, \u2018horse, do that\u2019. A horse doesn\u2019t understand English, nor any other humanish. Therefore \u2018whispering\u2019 is a very good name for the language. It denotes something uncommon, something one can also easily pass without noticing, but which is not less important for that. On the contrary.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s actually, and I already wrote it above, a kind of suggestive language. Like in \u2018autosuggestion\u2019. Did you think I wouldn\u2019t like it?<\/p>\n
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Much whispering is going on nowadays. I think and hope even much more to come in the near future. Horses are whispered to, but also dogs and other animals. With very good effect. Actually, anything that is natural and at the same has a certain degree of inner complexity, can be whispered to. We humans are no exception. There is a lot to learn from this, which can be put to good use in almost every aspect of society: in education, on the workfloor, in prison (and before getting there), in medicine, in how to handle addictions, etc.<\/p>\n
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This may look like a simple solution for everything, but of course it isn\u2019t. Whispering is to most people still a very foreign language, even more foreign than Chinese. It is not at all simply<\/em> about \u2018being friendly a little more\u2019. Not simply<\/em> about being \u2018mister nice guy\u2019 – although Robert Redford in the movie was of course a \u2026 nice guy. That\u2019s OK, but much more is involved in whispering. If you only see that, you\u2019re in for huge disappointments. This explains for instance why the concept of \u2018caring & supportive manager\u2019 is not endorsed by many \u2018people management gurus\u2019 who after briefly being enthusiastic, find it unrealistic. Well, what is unrealistic is their idea about it, which is directly related to their own not being able to speak the language. It\u2019s like saying: \u201cThose Chinese all talk gibberish. There is not a word of it to be understood.\u201d That\u2019s silly to say, if you live in China.<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n But we all live in China, 24\/7.<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n