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I love finding out about new or unusual words and phrases. One of my favourites at the moment is alethophobia – I came across it in Susan Scott's latest book Fierce Leadership. Alethophobia is 'an intense, abnormal or illogical fear of the truth' something I suspect more than a few leaders suffer from! Scott also uses a fascinating phrase when she asks if you or your team are 'choking on mokitas'. Mokitas is a Papua New Guinean term for 'that which everyone knows but know one will speak of'.
One of my other favourites which I heard from Glenn Capelli many years ago is neotony. Netony is 'aging, yet retaining the childlike behaviour traits of spontaneity, creativity and a sense of wonder...what we add as we age, is wisdom'. This is something I would definitely like to suffer from!!
So ask yourself...
- what's your favourite word or phrase?
- do you or your team suffer from alethophobia?
- are you adding wisdom as you age?
“the secret to my long and productive life is my neotonous behaviour”
Ashley Montagu
(philosopher and author of over 50 books).
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