Some skills can be improved by just practicing long enough. Let’s take running. Basically, the longer you run, the longer you will be able to run (within certain limits, of course).
Communicating is different. Your communication skills won’t improve by talking longer. In fact, the opposite might take you a much longer way. Try using fewer words to say the same thing and magic happens.
Clarity is valued a lot by our audiences. But it is probably the most underpracticed skill for speakers.
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The single most avoidable mistake in speaking:Skipping practice out of fear of making mistakes. It breaks my heart every time I see someone avoid practice
The Curse of Knowledge is a fancy name for the phenomenon that we can’t imagine what it would be like if we didn’t knew what
What if, just for today, you assumed that everything you believe is false? That the others are, in fact, right. That their objections to your