Conversation is where this aspect lives. The native is comfortable to talk to, remembers what was said last time, and finds the right register without calculating it, whether the company is a child, a bereaved neighbour or a difficult client. Instruction given by such a person is clear because they can feel where the listener is lost. Reading was usually early and pleasurable. There is a good memory for voices, phrases and names, and a taste for gossip that is affectionate rather than cruel.
The trap is fluency without rigour. Because it is always easy to produce a plausible account of a feeling, the native seldom checks whether the account is true, and can be quite unaware of anything they have not already found words for. Difficulties get talked through so smoothly that they are never quite settled. Emotional life tends to be discussed rather than altered. Such people are often praised for self-awareness when what they possess is vocabulary, and the difference matters in the long run.
There is nothing here to force development, which is the usual complaint about trines. The native who writes writes charmingly and shallowly unless something else in the chart supplies pressure. What sharpens it is engagement with a subject that resists easy expression, or a relationship with someone who cannot be soothed by talk. Silence is the other exercise, and it is the harder one. Held long enough, it turns a considerable social gift into something with weight behind it.
What It Gives
- ◆unforced fluency about feeling
- ◆instruction pitched to the listener
- ◆warm and retentive memory for people
- ◆conversation that puts others at ease
What It Costs
- ◆vocabulary mistaken for self-knowledge
- ◆matters talked through but unresolved
- ◆charm substituted for rigour
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