Jefferson Fisher

You sound more aggressive and people stop listening.

People will take it as rude.

People will take it as unkind.

People will take it in the way they want to take it.

But if I have a tone that is lowered, see what I just did?

If I have a tone that is lowered, if I frame ways that say I need,

I need to tell you something that most people aren't willing to tell you.

You hear how you listen more?

Hear how all of a sudden you become more curious?

If I use my words to subtract things rather than try and add on too much,

and not cloud my sentences, if I subtract the over explaining, the justifications, the excessive apologies, things that do not serve me, if you want a quick note, the adverbs aren't helping your sentences.

I'm not saying you can't use them all the time.

They just don't make you sound

Assertive.

If you want to sound more assertive, stop watering down your sentences.

Every adverb you use is a piece of ice in the drink.

What are adverbs?

Those are the words that end in L-Y.

Literally, basically, obviously, clearly, really, just.

When you throw in adverbs into your drink, you water it down and nobody can taste it.