Speaking with clarity is easy – if you don’t care for the truth, that is. If do care, clarity is even more important.
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It's actually easy to speak with clarity.
Speaker:What's hard is to speak with clarity about the things we deeply care about.
Speaker:When you don't, it's really easy to come up with a statement like “this program
Speaker:will bring you five new clients every week.” this is about as clear as it gets.
Speaker:If you don't care about it's truthfulness, that is.
Speaker:That's a crucial difference.
Speaker:When you speak about the things you care about, you do care about truth.
Speaker:You cannot say anything that's just simple or clear.
Speaker:You need to say things that are simple and true.
Speaker:Clear and true.
Speaker:For example, this new service you were building over the last three years.
Speaker:That product that demanded from your team months of blood, sweat, and tears.
Speaker:The lessons you've learned on your path to becoming the leader you are and
Speaker:that you want to share in a keynote.
Speaker:These things are complex.
Speaker:We know so much about them that we easily fall under the Curse of Knowledge.
Speaker:We struggle with what to leave out and what to focus on.
Speaker:We are unsure about the promises we can confidently make.
Speaker:We use language and abstraction that might be hard to get for others.
Speaker:Ultimately, we are so deeply expert in our field that it's
Speaker:hard to look with non-expert eyes.
Speaker:And yet, it's pre precisely these things that require clarity.
Speaker:If only because we must not leave the field to the bullshitters.
Speaker:Especially, if you do care.
Speaker:Then do the hard work, figure it out so that you can speak with clarity and
Speaker:resonate strongly with your audience.