I have so enjoyed Steven Pinker’s The Sense of Style. If you are writing books or sermons, blogs or lesson plans, you will greatly benefit from his thoughts on good communication. One particularly poignant section captures the secret to good style in a simple metaphor. Pinker writes: The guiding metaphor of classic style is seeing […]
Communication
The Cure for Miscommunication
What’s the cure for miscommunication? It’s not perfect communication. It’s not more information. It’s far simpler. The cure for miscommunication is to shorten the feedback loop. Seth Godin writes: The challenge of communication isn’t to never miscommunicate, it’s to cut down the time between the interaction and the realization that the communication didn’t get through. […]