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From: Joseph Dewey
Date: 05 May 2010
Time: 02:09:10 -0500
Remote Name: 76.27.72.25
Since I'm a clutterer, it's really hard for me to recognize when I'm actually cluttering. It's usually only about ten minutes later, when I think back on it and think, "oh, I had a ton of disfluencies in that conversation." So, I have to rely on a friend's analysis of me for the answer to this question. She said that I clutter most (or exhibit the disfluencies associated with cluttering most) when I'm either very excited about something or very nervous. I found this completely fascinating. Nervous makes sense. But when she told me this, I'd just read a Dale Carnegie book where Carnegie said that people are at their most fluent when they're excited or passionate about something. Yet I'm completely different than that. So the commonality with nervousness and excitement, with me, is that I have tons of things going through my head at once, and I think that's what spurs the mass disfluencies. When I'm excited about something, my brain kind of overloads, and I think about more and more and more cool stuff on the topic, which makes it very very hard for me to organize all of that thought into coherent speech. So, I think that's what happens with most people when they're nervous, but most people (non-clutterers) get more streamlined when they're excited, and thusly more fluent.