understand. Demonstrate sincere appreciation.Demonstrating respect provides important balance for the other dimensions of authentic expression. For example, it is true but disrespectful and unhelpful to tell your grandmother she looks old. It is usually unwise and disrespectful to emphasize hurtful, disgusting, or especially private information if it is not needed to advance the conversation. Similarly, even though you may be feeling intense anger, it is often best to moderate your public display of the most powerful emotions, and especially violence. While a peer-level exchange of information is essential to healthy dialogue, people who have achieved especially high stature particularly deserve our respect. Strike a balance that ensures both truth and grace with a constructive purpose. Accomplish the task as you strengthen the relationship. Manage time to demonstrate respect for the people and the importance of the issues. Brevity respects the valuable time of busy people and is often the best choice when the task is paramount. In other circumstances leisurely conversations may be appreciated as generous contributions of your own valuable time, thought, caring, and consideration. These extended, organic, and engaging conversations are best when the relationship is most important or the topic is particularly interesting, sensitive, or complex. Particularly important and difficult issues may require several well-planned, extended, and intense discussions to adequately explore, understand, and address. In any event, match the time spent to the importance of both the task and the relationship. ThinkingOriginal, well-founded, congruent, insightful, relevant, and important ideasUnderstand your own thoughts, and intentions. Create important, useful, or entertaining original thoughts, ideas, opinions, and questions based on a well founded theory of knowledge. Deliberate, evaluate, contemplate, and decide consistent with your values, beliefs, and goals, as you continue to refine these guiding foundations. The most valuable thoughts are constructive, clear, principled, relevant, and well though-out reflections of your enduring values, beliefs, goals, and concerns. Clear thinking is based on valid logic and accurate research. Think clearly before speaking. Clear thinking requires us to confront our own inherent ignorance and uncertainty. No one can master the millions of published books, thousands of world cultures, and the ongoing ideas and accomplishments of billions of people. We can only do our best to learn what is most important, remain curious, depend on reliable sources, stay up-to-date in our chosen fields of interest, and make our way through an uncertain world.Clear thinking is the difficult and essential prerequisite to clear expression.FeelingRecognize and acknowledge your emotionsNotice how you feel and express your feelings authentically, both verbally and non verbally, within constructive and compassionate display rules. Speak from the heart without exaggerating or minimizing your emotions.ClarityMaking ideas visibleClear communication, sharing understanding, say what you mean. Carefully choose the most accurate words and images to provide the most complete, understandable, and precise representation of your intent. Enunciate clearly, paying attention to accent, inflection, intonation, and sound quality. Speak fluently with eloquence, coherence, and candor. Carefully organize your presentation and write literately, lucidly, and legibly using correct grammar and punctuation. Fully convey your message.VeracityThe truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truthNo doublespeak, half-truths, false