Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

What do you think is the number one skill or asset that everyone should have that will always further them in life?

Good communicator in the written word. I don't think it's hard to improve that. I think that a regular

practice of writing could be journaling in the morning for five to ten minutes with

something like morning pages. Having a regular writing practice and it could be

just an assignment that you give yourself once a week and you're going to write three to five pages and then you're going to pay someone to edit it or to review it.

And that could be a teacher at a local college who does say creative writing classes or it could be a

friend is lawyer or a lawyer. Lawyers are very good at spotting sloppy language or sloppy thinking.

Words that are unnecessary, words that are easily confused.

Just that practice of tightening up your writing will tighten up your thinking.

So if you want to improve your thinking the most concrete tangible way to do that that is easy to manage

is having a regular writing practice of some type and the goal isn't to become a

better writer the goal is to become a clearer thinker. No matter what you are doing in life, you are going to have to, especially in a digital world where email is going to remain king for the foreseeable future and if not email it's going to be text there will be a

text component then you need to be a compelling communicator and then I would

suggest very closely related to that is getting good at negotiating. So communicating negotiating there are two

So written and verbal.

Written and verbal. There's a program called Secrets of Power Negotiating. The audio

version is exceptional to listen to because you are able to pick up the nuance of the

intonation and the delivery and then you role play that.

You have to practice.

You can't expect to read a book on negotiating, walk into a huge negotiation that you're nervous about

and knock it out of the parking.

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