diff --git a/personal/interpersonal skills/Difficult Conversations.md b/personal/interpersonal skills/Difficult Conversations.md index d002aff..788c9da 100644 --- a/personal/interpersonal skills/Difficult Conversations.md +++ b/personal/interpersonal skills/Difficult Conversations.md @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Once you've broken the larger bad thing down into discrete issues, it's time to #### Simplifying your topic You should be sure you can state simple what you want to discuss. This isn't necessarily about starting the conversation, it's it's about making sure that you could explain, in a few words, what the issue you want to address is. -It's surprisingly rare for this to happen. People will often leave a problem vague, because the real root issue feels scary, and more diffi +It's surprisingly rare for this to happen. People will often leave a problem vague, because the real root issue feels scary, and more difficult to address. Try to separate the parts of your brain that say "What's the issue", and "How can I say the issue". Those are two separate problems, and you shouldn't ignore the real root problem just because you find it scary to explain it.