Leaders Light The Path

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5 new clients every week?

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.

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What's hard is to speak with clarity about the things we deeply care about.

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When you don't, it's really easy to come up with a statement like “this program

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will bring you five new clients every week.” this is about as clear as it gets.

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If you don't care about it's truthfulness, that is.

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That's a crucial difference.

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When you speak about the things you care about, you do care about truth.

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You cannot say anything that's just simple or clear.

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You need to say things that are simple and true.

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Clear and true.

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For example, this new service you were building over the last three years.

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That product that demanded from your team months of blood, sweat, and tears.

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The lessons you've learned on your path to becoming the leader you are and

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that you want to share in a keynote.

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These things are complex.

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We know so much about them that we easily fall under the Curse of Knowledge.

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We struggle with what to leave out and what to focus on.

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We are unsure about the promises we can confidently make.

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We use language and abstraction that might be hard to get for others.

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Ultimately, we are so deeply expert in our field that it's

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hard to look with non-expert eyes.

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And yet, it's pre precisely these things that require clarity.

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If only because we must not leave the field to the bullshitters.

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Especially, if you do care.

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Then do the hard work, figure it out so that you can speak with clarity and

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resonate strongly with your audience.

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