Dimension
Message
A message is not everything you know about a thing. It is the smallest thing the other person needs in order to do what the moment requires. Almost every failure here is a failure of subtraction.
When it breaks
Prepared people ramble, competent people bury the point, and the listener works harder than the speaker did. The information was all present, which is exactly why nobody found it.
Sounds like They still did not know what I wanted by the end.
Usually mistaken for Language. People conclude their English is the problem when the ordering is the problem, and go away to study vocabulary they already have.
The sub-dimensions
Message is not one thing. It is 5, and a prescription aimed at the wrong one inside the right dimension fails in a way that is very hard to see, because the dimension was correct.
Selection
What you leave out.
Everything relevant is included, because everything relevant feels obligatory. The point survives, buried, among things that were also true.
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Order
What comes first.
You build to the conclusion. That works in writing, where a reader can wait, and fails in rooms, where people stop before you arrive.
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Compression
Saying it in fewer words without losing it.
Halfway through you have used the words you had and the point is not finished, so the ending is improvised.
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Structure
One idea per sentence.
Three ideas arrive inside one sentence joined by and, which, and because. This is the actual mechanism of sounding jumbled.
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Language under pressure
Grammar and word choice when attention is on you.
The grammar holds in writing and collapses in speech, which means it is a load problem rather than a knowledge problem.
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What corrects it
Reading the sub-dimension you recognise is the beginning of it and not the work. What corrects a break is practice aimed at that break, in an order, at a dose, checked against what actually happens in a room. That sequence is the Message Gym, and how the sequence is run is the five steps.
Which of the 5 is yours is not something this page can tell you, and neither can you. It is named at The Diagnosis, along with which of the four gaps it is, and everything after reads from that one result.
Ten minutes of questions, and a report showing where your own answers point.
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