Complex English doesn't make you more professional

Fancy English words don't make you sound professional. The most respected leaders are not the ones who use a lot of words. Why did they do it? They say anti-globalization. They actually use few and simple. America has never been about what can be done for us. It's about what can be done by us together. But how do we actually do that? How do you go from all of those technical words that we are so used in our culture to say the same thing with simple words? It's all about a simple question. What do I mean? Here is an example of something that could be said in a meeting. We need to synergize our cross-functional capabilities to execute a strategic pivot, leveraging granular analytics to optimize our core deliverables and rectify the misalignment with our primary demographic. My friend, if you have to say something like this, first of all, ask yourself, what do you mean? Let's look at it for a second, right? The first part says we need to synergize our cross-functional capabilities to execute a strategic pivot. Basically, we need to work harder, right? That's the point. Why do we need to work harder? Because we need to pivot, which means to go the opposite direction. This means that there's something wrong we need to fix, right? And we need to work a little harder to do that. Leveraging granular analytics, this simply means reading the actual numbers a little better. To optimize our core deliverables and rectify the misalignment with our primary demographic, to me, this reads like we're just talking to the wrong people. That's it. Now, how do you automate all this so that you don't have to think of all of these complex things and then ask yourself what you mean and then go ahead with an answer, which is pretty long and it justifies the purpose, actually. Let me tell you what I did. And let me tell you what I also suggest all of my clients. It's something you can do right now after you watch this video or the next time you speak with someone or actually, you don't even need to speak with someone directly. You can just overhear a conversation from someone else around you in your native language. Once you listen to that conversation in your native language, all you have to do is mentally translate it into English. That's all. You hear something in a very natural Italian, German, Polish, Spanish, whatever language is your native language, you mentally do that, right? You do it mentally, translate it mentally into English. But what's the difference? What's the catch? Don't translate it word for word. You ask yourself, what does the person actually mean? You hear him saying something very complex about, maybe they're complaining. You ask yourself, what do they mean by that complaint? And you turn that into English. Since people speak every day, whether they speak with you or with someone else, you will have a ton of opportunity to turn this into a habit every time you listen to someone. And so next time you're in a serious conversation, you're already mentally prepared and doing this switch from translating word to word to something that is closer to interpreting becomes way, way easier.