Listeners Instinctively Detect That When We Lower

Nonverbal Communication Forms A Social Language That Is In Many Ways Richer And More Fundamental Than Our Words.

We Also Use Our Imagination And Take Shortcuts To Fill Gaps In Patterns Of Nonvisual Data. As With Visual Input, We Draw Conclusions And Make Judgments Based On Uncertain And Incomplete Information, And We Conclude, When We Are Done Analyzing The Patterns, That Out Picture Is Clear And Accurate. But Is It?

Science Has Revealed A Universe That Is Vast, Ancient, Violent, Strange, And Beautiful, A Universe Of Almost Infinite Variety And Possibility One In Which Time Can End In A Black Hole, And Conscious Beings Can Evolve From A Soup Of Minerals.

Listeners Instinctively Detect That When We Lower The Usual Pitch Of Our Voice, We Are Sad, And When We Raise It, We Are Angry Or Fearful.

What I've Learned, Above All, Is To Keep Marching Forward Because The Best News Is That Since Chance Does Play A Role, One Important Factor In Success Is Under Our Control: The Number Of At Bats, The Number Of Chances Taken, The Number Of Opportunities Seized.