Communicating
Communicate better.
Communicating
3 rules for expressing your thoughts is useful for all types of communication.
Make no more than three points
Explain difficult ideas in three different ways and
Make important points three times.
The Blank Sheet Method: From Passive Reading to Active Learning
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“How to clarify a concept you can’t articulate:
1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.
2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?”
1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.
2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On hard conversations, how to ruin a good strategy, and asking for what you want
“My friend, who sometimes shares his writing with me, once said my feedback always falls into three categories:
1. Make it shorter.
2. Make it more appealing.
3. How could it apply to more people?”
1. Make it shorter.
2. Make it more appealing.
3. How could it apply to more people?”
3-2-1: My advice for writers, what silence says, and the chapters of your life
When we know a lot about a topic, it can be difficult to write about it in a way that makes sense to the layperson. To improve writing, Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker suggests several strategies:
- Use concrete nouns and refer to tangible things instead of abstractions.
- Assume that readers know less about the topic than you do, but are still inte
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“The truth shrinks as the crowd grows.
In a large meeting at work, people hold back their honest opinions. The resulting conversation offends the fewest people but is often not the truth.
Smaller groups are more likely to find truth than larger ones.”
In a large meeting at work, people hold back their honest opinions. The resulting conversation offends the fewest people but is often not the truth.
Smaller groups are more likely to find truth than larger ones.”
David Brooks • Your Mental Diet
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How can it be that you talk to someone and it’s done in a second? But it IS done in a second — it’s done in a second and 34 years. It’s done in a second and every experience, and every movie, and everything in my
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“The simplest way to clarify your thinking is to write a full page about whatever you are dealing with and then delete everything except the 1-2 sentences that explain it best.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On creating the conditions for joy, how to go to hell, and the simple way to clarify your thinking
“Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.”
— Neil Strauss