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Play the "one syllable" game
The concept is simple: Try to communicate business ideas using words of only one syllable.
This exercise trains your brain to use smaller, easier-to-understand words rather than complex ones.
Since complex words tend to "complexify" your thoughts (and your expression of them), habitually using common words leads toward clearer thinking.
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The words you habitually use when you're thinking (and then expressing those thoughts) mold how you see the world. For example, people who habitually think (and speak and write) the word "hate" tend to find an ever-increasing number of things to hate.
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While most business buzzwords are simply annoying (like saying "utilize" rather than "use"), some are so fuzzy and vague that they automatically lead to confused thinking.
Mentally editing out the fuzzy, vague buzzwords when you are talking, speaking, listeni...
If you find yourself writing or reading long, complex sentences at work, edit and reedit them so that they express the gist in fewer words.
Do this repeatedly and over time you'll automatically accustom your brain to shorter, clearer wordings.
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- We write to share a message. To sell a product. A service. An idea.
- Unclear messages mean you lose the opportunity to connect
- It means you exclude people. You piss them off. And you lose out. It could mean a lost follower. A lost sale. A lost event participant.
- Resear...
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Write Simply!
It directly influences how you experience things in life.
Our words play an important part in shaping our existence, so if your internal self-talk is negative, your external experiences will most likely be negative as well.
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