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This is Optimal Living Daily. Weak communication habits you should shed by Isaacmorehouse

of Isaacmorehouse.com, and I'm Justin Mollick. Welcome back to the podcast where I read an article

to you every day of the year with permission from the authors.

I'm going to keep it up, so let's get right to it as we optimize your life.

Weak communication habits you should shed by Isaacmorehouse of Isaacmorehouse.com.

There are small ways that good people can damage their reputation

and social capital with their communication. The obvious culprits of bad grammar, typos, spelling errors,

or too much text are of course important to avoid. But there are a few other communication habits

that can hurt just as much, but get little attention.

All of these habits share in common, a lack of clarity, resolve, and what Napoleon Hill would call

definiteness of purpose. They signal doubt, weakness, a divided mind, and leave the recipient with

ambiguity. Avoid them. The, I'm not sure if I'm serious, sentence

ending. I've been seeing a lot of ha-ha and LOL these days creeping into everything from

Facebook comments to professional email exchanges. I'm not a language purist, nor do I espouse

formal writing over a laid-back and conversational approach. The problem with ending sentences

...