[!quote] However, when I think about the best advice I’ve received over the years and I found one common pattern. Good advice improves your vocabulary for describing your situation. It helps you to better understand where you are, why you are there, and how you could best change your situation. It can give you a framework to organize your thinking, which is where the power actually derives. …Having the right words to describe something is inherently powerful. It takes the amorphous specters which lurk in the back of our mind and gives them substance; a shape which we can then tackle.

David Smith, The Best Advice

Conversely, not having the right words for something, not being able to precisely describe a situation, limits your ability to act because it limits your ability to see the options and form choices out of them. GARDEN/notes/Lack of vocabulary traps you in the originating context.