Jefferson Fisher

all of the tea all this context that's been in their mind and it's all story and it's convoluted and they're like no way and so this guy and they start dropping names and then they're like well he did this and then actually you know what wait let me back up what he did was that

is maddening all right i understand that it usually comes from insecurity or fear and it's it's the fear of that you're not giving enough information totally valid what the other person hears and what the other person is doing is trying to distill like okay what's what's relevant what's not relevant what's the issue what's not the issue and it's it's like playing um

like an I spy book game, like a where's Waldo, like you're searching for the things that go, that's the issue right there.

But not everybody does that.

They're not gonna just try to find the issues for you in that type of capacity.

Instead, they're gonna be just as lost.

So what are they gonna do?

They're gonna say what they want, because they don't really know what you're asking for.

So you start with a story, I can promise you, you're going to end up being disappointed when it comes to being direct.

Unless, I'd say unless, there was a reason why the story is important and that would come on the back end.

So instead I would say, here's my issue.

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,