When it comes to communication, we can often find ourselves both at a loss for words and wanting to be fresh and original in a given situation. These two seem at odds, but perhaps they’re not. What if we just haven’t had enough training in the right, best, most effective words for a situation? Or enough encounters with proven communication models from which to draw? If you want to expand your way with words, ratchet up the results of your communications, maybe it’s time to consider outright lifting from the best. Taking others’ words, phrases, templates, scripts. Using them and practicing them over and over until they flow naturally from your tongue, eventually segueing into your own riffs on a theme.