If we analyze the cases that are observed daily regarding the difficulty that many have in clearly expressing their thoughts, it will be proven that this is a very common occurrence, since it encompasses the vast majority of people.

We have not had the opportunity to peruse the many books written about human beings in their enormous variety of psychological aspects; consequently, we have no knowledge of this point having been addressed before. If something had already been written about it, we would gladly cite it.

Returning to the question that motivates these lines, we will begin by saying that, in effect, there is a large percentage of beings who present this psychological peculiarity, to which, judging by scientific indifference, it seems that no importance is given. Despite this, this importance exists, because every person who lacks mental agility and cannot, moreover, express their thoughts clearly, hardly advances on the path of life, this life in which it is so necessary to maintain agile understanding in the countless circumstances that must often be faced. If it is a matter of business life, we know how indispensable an alert mind and an easy way with words are to face the thousand situations that do not allow for slowness in thought, word, or action. The same happens in all other aspects of life: a candidate, for example, who is looking for a job, has, if they do not know how to express their thoughts clearly and quickly, about ninety-nine percent less probability compared to someone who knows how to do it better; In government tasks, and indeed wherever a person must perform functions of some importance, it is equally essential to possess this ease in expressing thoughts, in order to be worthy of consideration with regard to abilities.

The poor results of many efforts to improve positions should be attributed, even if not everyone realizes it, to the aforementioned psychological deficiency. From what or where does this deficiency or difficulty come? Let’s see: it is a widespread custom among parents to stifle their children’s spontaneous expressions when they, whether in joy or sorrow, want to express what they think or feel. Generally, the child is forcefully silenced, admonished, or prevented from saying what is already known to be coming; even worse if it is to excuse some wrongdoing. This creates an inferiority complex; that is, a kind of shyness and fear takes hold of the child’s soul as such events are repeated, and thoughts and words become fragmented, as if the pieces of reason were jamming against each other.

In youth, albeit in a somewhat attenuated form, analogous situations occur, which the most daring manage to prevent, but not those who were oppressed in childhood by this adversity, for it is difficult for them to emancipate themselves from what constituted, during their childhood years, a barrier to the free expression of their thoughts. Thus, one arrives at the age when the exercise of this faculty is most lacking, and the individual finds themselves restrained and incapable of freely engaging with their ideas and communicating them with the same ease with which they conceive them.

In primary schools, when a child is called upon to speak about any topic in front of their classmates, it is common to observe the fear and shame they experience at the prospect of having to express themselves in public. They would prefer anything, including punishment, to exposing themselves, as they believe, to ridicule in front of others. This occurs precisely because they already carry within themselves the inhibition that, later in life, muzzles their tongue and hinders their thoughts, and even prevents them from expressing their ideas in writing.

Such is the habit that this deficiency imposes on the individual that, in many cases, even as an adult, people speak as if they didn’t need to complete their sentences, undoubtedly believing that whoever is listening has already grasped what they wanted to express. They try to make others understand in advance the thought that they resist being uttered. Hence the many misunderstandings with one’s fellows, so many contradictions, without one being able, in most cases, to explain to oneself what they stem from.

To seek a way to eliminate this psychological deficiency from human beings, re-educating their character until they achieve total emancipation from the shyness that oppresses them, is to pave the way for all those who suffer the consequences of causes that, unrelated to the good feelings of the heart, have been repeated from generation to generation, without anyone being able to discover what this evil consisted of that has always caused so much unease and misfortune to the individual.