While we're figuring out what we think, we tend to say the same thing again in early drafts. To find overlapping sentences in your documents, try highlighting repetition as you edit.

Cut the overlap

Many workplace documents contain words that weigh it down, such as generally, basically, actually, kind of, really, virtually, totally, essentially, completely, practically, literally, and just. We may be so used to these words that it may sound odd without them. Consider if these words are essential to the meaning of your sentence. If not, cut them out.

Delete words that don’t add anything to your sentence

When we draft a document, we're thinking about what we're doing, so we tell our readers what we're doing. However, your readers don't need to follow the journey. They need to know where you end up. Consider this sentence: "I will now offer you three steps we should take to improve our onboarding process". A better sentence is, "We should take three steps to improve our onboarding process."

Instead of telling us what you’re going to do in a sentence, just do it

If you have something complex to say, you should always take the space to say it. But when your writing becomes unnecessary wordy and repetitive, your audience must figure out what you're saying instead of thinking about what you're saying. Writing something long is much easier and quicker than writing something shorter. Some strategies can help you write more effectively.

Extra words add up

It’s not the end of the world if you use an unnecessary word now and then, write the occasional overlapping sentence, or tell us what you’re doing in a sentence before you do it. But the extra words add up. In this article, the author offers advice for how to make your writing shorter and sharper.

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Early life experiences with our key caregivers <a href="https://innovation.umn.edu/parent-child/">shape</a> our expectations – consciously and unconsciously – of what to expect from relationships throughout our lives. Unless you understand and seek to change your attachment style, you will likely continue to manage your current relationships based on the habits you learned in childhood from your earliest caregivers.Fortunately, by trying out new behaviours in relationships, and finding new coping behaviours when you’re feeling anxious or stressed, you can change your attachment style, enjoy better relationships, and lead a more fulfilling life.

Your Attachment Style Has Its Roots in Your Childhood

The first step in understanding why you behave the way you do in relationships is to identify your current attachment style. Select which of these four statements you feel best describes you:a) It is easy for me to become emotionally close to others.b) I want to be completely emotionally intimate with others, but I often find that others are reluctant to get as close as I would like.c) I am comfortable without close emotional relationships. d) I am deeply uncomfortable getting close to others. I want emotionally close relationships, but I find it terrifying and chaotic to trust others.

Identify Your Current Attachment Style: Four Statements

An anxious attachment style (sometimes called ‘preoccupied’ or ‘ambivalent’) is often due to inconsistent or intrusive parenting, or a <a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-can-adults-undo-the-harm-of-being-parentified-as-children">blurring</a> of the boundaries between parent/caregiver and child, for example by exposing the child to inappropriately adult emotions and situations too early in life. If this is your attachment style, then as an adult you probably value closeness and connection but find yourself worrying about upsetting others or being rejected, and you might tend to assume the worst is happening in a relationship.

The Anxious Attachment Style

You might not need a lot of reassurance in a relationship – perhaps because you currently have a more avoidant style. You know your partner loves you, and they should know you love them, so why keep saying it? But perhaps they do need a bit more reassurance than you, and you’ve seen how this mismatch creates friction. So, rather than dismissing them as needy, have a think about why – from an attachment perspective – they might need a little more from you, and adjust your behaviour accordingly.

Practise Spotting Your Patterns of Behaviour in Relationships – and Their Consequences

An avoidant attachment style (sometimes called ‘dismissive-avoidant’ or ‘fearful-avoidant’ depending on the accompanying behaviours) is linked to a caregiver’s consistent and repetitive rejection of the child’s emotional needs. If this was your experience, then as an adult you might find you always try to cope on your own. You probably reject the need for relationships or, if you are in them, you may find it difficult to become emotionally close, or place a lot of value on your partner’s looks.

The Avoidant Attachment Style

Humans have a deep-seated need for love and nurturance from their parents or other carers, and if this care is absent or unreliable, it can lead to long-term problems.Ultimately, your attachment style shapes how much you trust others, whether you fear abandonment, and whether you keep your distance from others - or push them away - to avoid intimacy.

Relationship Security: The Facts

The disorganised style (sometimes called ‘disoriented’) – is best thought of as being trapped in, and responding to, a terrifying and incredibly confusing stay/go paradox, where the caregiver (and future potential friends or partners) are both the source of occasional comfort but, more often, the source of threat. This style is <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02650533.2011.598228">linked</a> to serious abuse and neglect in childhood. If this was something you experienced, you might struggle with self-esteem and have perhaps found your subsequent relationships incredibly difficult because of the intense emotions you experience.

The Disorganized Attachment Style

If you’re anxious, ask for patience and tolerance from your partner, while at the same time committing to acting less from that anxious place. If your partner understands that you’re anxious, it might help them to know that it won’t help you to constantly reassure you that they love you; on the contrary, the route to attachment security is trust built over time.

Collaborate with Your Partner to Change Your Attachment Style

Attachment is fundamentally a science of relationships. Yes, we want to know more about ourselves, but we also want to influence those we care about to feel emotionally safe in their relationship with us. So, once you feel like you understand your own attachment behaviours, start looking to those around you to more fully understand why they behave the way they do in their close relationships.

Examine The Attachment Style Of Others

If you’re fortunate enough to have a secure attachment style, your primary caregivers were probably ‘good enough’  and you are well placed to enjoy healthy relationships in life.

The Secure Attachment Style

It goes something like this: (a) notice when you’re on autopilot – for instance, lapsing into needy or avoidant behaviours; (b) pause to reflect; (c) do something different; (d) notice the results; and, if they were positive, (e) apply what you’ve learned in future situations.You can also apply these principles for changing your attachment style beyond romantic relationships: to friendships, family relationships and work relationships.

Create a Virtuous Circle (ideally in Collaboration with Your Partner/friends)

If you’re struggling to make the changes you want to make in your relationships and you keep making the same mistakes, take a beat and bring yourself back to this key point: you can learn to handle emotions differently; you can change your attachment style; and you can change your expectations about relationships. Attachment style is not destiny – it can change, and you can <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/per.2226?campaign=wolearlyview">choose</a> to change it.

Work Towards Changing Your Attachment Style

Each of the four statements(In the previous stash) corresponds to one of the four main attachment styles recognised by psychologists. If you chose:(a) this suggests you have a secure style; (b) an anxious style; (c) an avoidant style;(d) a disorganised style. There is a secure attachment style, and there are three insecure styles: anxious, avoidant and disorganised. Key to them all is that you often expect to get treated based on how you got treated.

The Attachment Style Results

Partners with a disorganised attachment style lack a coherent approach toward relationships. On the one hand, they want to love and be loved. But they are afraid to get close to anyone because they have a strong fear based on experience – that those closest to them are the most dangerous and will hurt them. Knowing that these partners want relationships, but fear them, can help you tolerate their lack of consistency and behaviours that, on the surface, look like they’re pushing you away.

Empathy For The Disorganized Partner

If you have an anxious attachment style, practise being direct and authentic with others, even though it feels hard. If you struggle to calm yourself without another person to help, there are many <a href="https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-find-the-mindfulness-practice-that-works-for-you">techniques</a> you can use that will help you to <a href="https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-calm-your-emotions-with-dialectical-behaviour-therapy">manage</a> any intense emotions that arise. If you’re more avoidant and struggle to connect with others, challenge yourself to stay present in disagreements and seek to understand the person opposite, rather than running away.

Keep Practising New Ways of Engaging with Others

Too clingy – or too scared to commit? Your attachment style is rooted in your childhood, but you can change it

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<ul><li>Curators will know every inch of this new landscape, and be able to lead both artists and collectors through this relatively unknown world, providing education and direction along the way.</li><li>They help make art accessible, both to collectors through education and contextualization and to artists by breaking down the barriers to creation.</li></ul>

Curators are Guides in the NFT World

There really isn't one definition of what it means to be a curator, and it's even more undefined in the NFT space.However, curators must possess a few core attributes that are Important in developing great art and having a wider audience appreciate that great art.

The Role of Curation and Art NFTs

In a New York Times article dissecting the overuse of the term "curator," critic and historian Hans-Ulrich Obrist defines the role as "a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public."

Catalysts of New Art Approaches

<ul><li>Meet the collector, and seek to understand their goals</li><li>Keep up on artists and art movements so they can better inform buyers</li><li>Educate them on the technology of the space, helping them to properly set up asset storage</li></ul>

Curators are Advisors to Collectors

<ul><li>Curators also curate art by thoughtfully organizing and arranging works and collections in a way that tells a story</li><li>This can include not only organizing exhibitions and shows but writing about artists, trends, and movements</li><li>They teach a broader audience how to appreciate art and help them understand why that art is important</li></ul>

Curators Curate

<ul><li>Curators identify new talent and work with that talent to foster creativity and develop career objectives</li><li>Provide portfolio reviews, advocate for artists' work, and lend needed support throughout the artistic journey</li><li>In the context of crypto art, curators can usher artists into the space by helping them to understand how they can maximize their creativity</li></ul>

A Curator Works with Artists

A curator can also help society better understand what art NFTs are, and provide insight into an individual work's value and meaning within the context of this historic art movement. Here are a few ways they will play a role in shaping the shaping of the crypto art scene.

Why Curators will have a role to play in fostering art NFTs just as they do in the real-world's art galleries and art industry by helping both collectors.

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Situational overload: This is analogous to the needle in a haystack problem. You need a specific piece of information, but it is buried in a mass of other information. Online search engines and other filtering tools like email and Twitter can help most of the time, but only if individuals know how to use search and filter tools effectively.Ambient overload: Instead of a needle in a haystack problem, you have an overload of only important and interesting information. The problem is exacerbated when you try to keep up with it, make sense of it and use it all.

Two types of information overload

The biggest problem with information overload is that information doesn't arrive at regular times, it just comes all the time. If you don't pay attention to it, you run the risk of missing critical or relevant information. Social media has made people feel they must take notice of everything. The pressure to engage with all of it cause an increased sense of overload, stress and addiction to web-connected devices.

The biggest problem with information overload

There is a growing concern that the vast amount of information generated on the web cause overwhelm, much like drinking from a fire hose. The information is rushing past us in such volume that we struggle to engage with it. In his book "Here comes everybody", Clay Shirky wrote that the problem is not information overload but filter failure.

Information overload

Since the start of human information recording, we've been shifting, selecting, organising and presenting information to give it meaning and clarity. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, said the principal functions of the internet should<ul><li>allow anyone to access any type of document,</li><li>enable everyone to disseminate their documents and</li><li>allow everyone to organise the entire collection of documents.</li></ul> However, it is not easy to organise web-based digital content or combine it with the vast amount of available information.

Digital curation: organising content into meaningful collections

Many people use tagging and RSS feed to identify content related to a topic to make internet content easier to find. But Shirky's research found that this type of tagging worsens the situation, as so much relevant information was identified that individuals could not pay attention to it all.

Tagging to help with curation

Robin Good, who initially harnessed the idea of curation for social digital media marketing purposes, describes information delivered by search engines as "fast food". It is useful if you are not concerned with quality, but if you desire quality, you need a curation site or service that offers the quality you want and is specific to your needs.

The intelligent curation filter

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Curation helps people understand and learn better.Curation guides people to discove and learn about a subject in greater depth.Curation saves people time by bringing the right information into focus.Curation facilitates discovery of new or rare or unknown valuable resources.Curation helps to uncover and identify patterns and relationships between information resources. Curation promotoes a critical thinking attitudeCuration invites questioning, participation, contribution, and improvements.

Curation benefits

An information resource has value only when someone verifies, organises and curates it. Without context, it is disconnected from other relevant resources. It's like having an ingredient without a recipe. Curation gives context to any information item to look at and appreciate. When the information resource is curated and contextualised, it gains value and usefulness.

Information lacks context

We live in the age of information, meaning that our ability to succeed are increasingly connected to our ability to manage and efficiently leverage information. Stephanie Hatch Leishman, a former MIT social media strategist, states that “curation is using your expertise in a field to gather great content around a specific theme and present that content in a way that will educate others.”

Curation is a vital skill

Content curation is a natural solution to resource abundance.
Some people voluntarily curate content for the direct purpose of producing better and more satisfying results, saving time, appearing more authoritative or gaining more customers.
Information curators are personally interested in what they do, and curating is a reliable way to learn about their resources, uncover true gems, and organise them in a meaningful way.

Curation natural drivers

Curation requires vetting, verification, resource-finding, providing a viewpoint and an ability to re-organise what is of value. <ul><li>Curation takes more time and effort than writing.</li><li>It takes more competence, experience and skill than writing.</li><li>You need to be a subject matter expert.</li><li>You need to immerse yourself completely into a subject.</li><li>To curate effectively, you must be driven by more than compensation.</li></ul>

Curation is more challenging than writing

<ul><li>Curators desire to organise an information space and make it easy for others to extract immediate value.</li><li>The desire to share, inform, educate, and entertain a community of people interested in the same topic.</li><li>The need to make sense of a subject by exploring, collecting, and combining relevant information.</li><li>The need to quickly find specific information.</li><li>The need to archive and preserve valuable information resources.</li><li>The will to create something of lasting value.</li><li>The desire to help others discover what is not apparent.</li></ul>

Motivation to curate information spaces

<ul><li>Curation helps people understand and learn better.</li><li>Curation guides people to discover and learn about a subject in greater depth.</li><li>Curation saves people time by bringing the right information into focus.</li><li>Curation facilitates the discovery of new or rare, or unknown valuable resources.</li><li>Curation helps to uncover and identify patterns and relationships between information resources.</li><li>Curation promotes a critical thinking attitude</li><li>Curation invites questioning, participation, contribution, and improvements.</li></ul>

The true purpose, motivation and rewards behind searching, collecting, adding value and sharing great collections of information.

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