Is my brain broken with my particular type of ADHD or do we in professional services over-explain and over-engineer every slide we make and every sentence we type? I can’t read the signal from the noise and pull out my action items because my colleagues and leaders are rambling/pontificating for 8 minutes to make a point that they could make in 2 sentences. I feel like I’m getting buried in an avalanche of words and I wish someone would speak clearly for once.

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I mean no, your brain isn’t broken. I just fixed a word salad presentation, I’m sure the original author got that idea from Big 4. I’m so glad I left that. It’s so obvious who gets paid by the hour and who gets paid on results.

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Try and take notes, and ask your colleagues and leaders to peer review with you at the end of whatever session you are on

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The word salad is too real I agree

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Holy crap I thought it was just me. I was complaining about this the other day! No one just says what the mean. Just be direct and blunt.

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