Articulation

When you get communication feedback, rewind and understand why others said that.

1. Have you answered the question?

2. To answer the question first? Or provide the punchline (If there is no time). Reasoning or walkthrough of your reasoning. Here are some book-summary of Sapiens by James Clear in italics.

• To describe how something happened means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from one point to another.
• To describe why something happened means to find causal connections that led to this particular series of events to the exclusion of all others.
• Can you tell the difference between the two?

Summarise points when you are shifting to a different concept. This ensures that the person you are talking to is on the same page as you at certain intervals. Summarisation is also a way to move from the specifics to a broader general statements. Think going up the pyramid.

If you are any bit interested in trying to predict the future or history then remember this from the notes:

• The deeper your knowledge of a particular area of history, the harder it becomes to explain why one particular outcome occurred and not another.
• It is an inevitable rule of history that what seems obvious in hindsight is impossible to predict beforehand.

When you find yourself repeating sometimes, probably something is not making sense and you are still trying to piece that. Preface it with this.