Jefferson Fisher

Here's the impact to me.

Here's how I want you to fix it.

And they're going to give a response and you say, I'm going to give you more information because you need to know this, right?

That's when you're able to give the additional information, but you don't want to start with it because it sounds like you're trying to

I don't know, run up, go up on an escalator that's going down.

Like you're just going to be running in motion and not getting anywhere.

All right, we've talked about what being direct is.

We've talked about what being direct sounds like, how you wanna stick the landing, how you wanna have short choppy sentences.

In my world, what I like to teach is if you can't say it in three sentences,

you need to think about it again.

You need to condense, you need to reduce.

So let me give that little tidbit to you.

I have a three sentence rule that I like to live by, both in my company and regular communication, if need be, and it's this.

If I can't say it in three sentences, I need to go back and think about it.

Now, the other people, if they're asking for information on something and they need context, absolutely, I'm going to give that.

But in terms of me initiating a message, if I cannot say it in three sentences, not run-on sentences, but actual grammatical sentences, then I need to go back to the drawing board.

It's that quote about if...

I would have written you a shorter letter if I had had more time.

Like it takes effort to try and condense information down.

And so when I can do that, that's me being direct.