30/12/2025
After spending 10 years in speech & communication sciences, here are 10 things I’ve learned to be true:
- Being a better listener makes you a better communicator.
- Your lack of confidence has more impact on how you show up than your accent or filler words.
- Rushing when speaking leads to mumbling, swallowing sounds, losing train of thought, and losing your audience.
- Your accent tells people you speak more than one language, not that you are incompetent.
- There is no progress without building awareness first. If you don’t know what you’re working with, you won’t be able to change it.
- Reading more will improve your vocabulary, your storytelling skills, and your world view, making you a more interesting and well rounded communicator.
- Trying too hard to be taken seriously at work can lead to alienating your audience by being too technical, too serious, too blunt, and lacking connection & vulnerability.
- Native language speakers also make mistakes, often.
- You do not need to be a professional TED talker to be a good public speaker and communicator.
- Progress isn’t linear.
What would you add to the list?
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