Speaking more while speaking less

A while back, I wrote about how most people should write more things, but those things should be shorter. The other day, I realized that the same more-often-but-smaller principle applies to me with speaking in meetings.

I have two problems:

  1. My is-this-worth-saying threshold is too high, so I don’t talk often.
  2. When I do talk, I ramble on longer than I should which dilutes my point.

So I need to speak more but speak less. And now I’m wondering what else this more-often-but-smaller principle could help with…


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