Do you become more verbose when your thinking isn’t clear? I know I do. The less certain I am about what I want to say, the more words I will use. In effect, I think out loud.
This is not something I’m proud of. I know it makes others cringe and run as fast as they can out of my hearing. And I try to edit myself. I tell myself, “Silence is my friend.”
Do you want an example of what I mean? Then listen to this week’s Inside PR. Not my best episode. Clearly, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman are good people. Otherwise, I’m sure they would have said, “Joe, shut the heck up.”
How about you? Do you ever feel that you share this problem? Thinking out loud, but not necessarily getting to the point?