Michael:
Welcome back to “Irresistible Communication”.
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Two minutes, one insight
on how to find better
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words
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Speaker 7: Everyone loves clarity until it gets them into trouble,
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that is, which it almost always does.
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For example, I get a lot of heavy
nods when I say that clarity
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forces you to take a stand.
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And people mean that.
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Yeah, they really want to take a stand.
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But eventually someone speaks up
with a huge BUT: “I've tried that.
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I spoke plainly.
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I was very clear, but
it blew up in my face.”
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And I get it.
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That's a real scar.
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Maybe people pushed back.
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Maybe the room went quiet.
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Maybe the project stalled
because someone felt threatened.
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Whatever it was, it taught you a lesson.
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Clarity is dangerous.
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But here's the thing.
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That lesson is incomplete.
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Because what really happened
isn't that clarity fail.
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It's that clarity reveals
something: about the culture,
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about the priorities, about the
willingness to have hard conversations.
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And that's precisely why clarity matters.
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If your words never create friction, they
probably never cut deep enough to matter.
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And if the truth never meets resistance,
maybe it's not even the real truth.
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So clarity is not the absence of pushback.
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It's often the cause of it.
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That pushback is information.
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It shows you where the real work begins.
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Leaders who light the path
don't avoid those moments.
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They walk straight into them.
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Not to win an argument, but to
move the conversation forward.
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So to me, the question isn't
so much if it backfires again.
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It is what might change if
you kept going after it did.
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Speaker 5: Keep lighting the path.
