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Say "do this" rather than "don't do that": speaking in negatives makes the listener take an extra mental step.
Drawn from what Wes Kao said
What Wes Kao actually said
- Wes Kao Co-founder of Maven, the cohort-based course platform
If you speak in negatives, your recipient has to take an extra mental step.
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