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Last year my gift to myself was to engage a career and life coach. In one of the sessions, we focused on a topic that I have constantly spoken of and kept an eye on. While we think the more we explain ourselves, the better people understand us, there’s a very thin line between over explaining, being apologetic and getting people to see our point of view.
Gender differences
I once read that as women, because our personality revolves around being generous with our time and energy, we want everyone to walk our journey with us. In the same way, we do not want to say anything that can be misconstrued or leave people wondering about the essence of our communication. This, then, pushes us to over communicate which is even more destructive than communicating too little. On the other end, most men communicate with brevity and assume that whoever leave behind will catch up.
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