What I Learned This Week: Communicate Better

The most valuable lesson I’ve learned this week is how being a better communicator can lead to a better life.

In a video on YouTube titled: “Leveling Up Your Life = Leveling Up Your Communication,” Myron Golden says, “If you learn to talk better, you will do better. In fact, the fastest, best, and most thorough way to level up your life is to level up your ability to communicate. The quality of your life is always going to be in direct correlation to the quality of your communication.”

Golden says there are two types of communication:

Internal Communication: What we say to ourselves
External Communication: What we say to others.

Internal communication is made up of our beliefs — the stories we tell ourselves about our expected outcomes. Most people tell themselves unfavorable stories and wonder why they get undesirable outcomes. If you get better at communicating with yourself and telling yourself better stories, every part of your life will get better. Positive thinking doesn’t necessarily help you achieve everything, but it does help you achieve everything better than negative thinking does.

Be very intentional about every thought you have — especially every thought you have about yourself. Have empowering thoughts, not defeated thoughts. Build yourself up by telling yourself empowering stories about yourself, not negative ones.

Talk to yourself better.

Then, Golden says, “The quality of your life is going to be in direct proportion to the quality of communication you have with other people.”

The better you can communicate with others, the more people will want you around and value their time with you.

He says the key to winning interactions is by knowing what you want to get out of each interaction but then making the interaction about the other person and how you can add value to them.

Talk to others better.

Golden ends by saying your ability to leverage AI to the fullest will be in direct proportion to your ability to describe exactly the outcome you desire and then challenge the outputs that AI gives you with more and better articulation.

Talk to AI better.

Talk to yourself and about yourself better, talk to others better by bringing value to conversations and interactions, and use AI better by being able to better communicate what you want and need.