Excerpt from Fan Deng’s reading

"The Power of Communication: A Four-Dimensional Model of Minimalist Communication"

Four Dimensions:

Chapter First, simple;

Second, segmented and organized;

Third, concise;

Fourth, additional stimulation.

If you want the other party to understand something, you should explain it in a simpler way, so that it will be easier for the other party to understand.

The paragraphs are organized. I believe everyone will notice when reading public accounts and news. If the article is divided into paragraphs and has subtitles, it will help you understand its content.

The same goes for being concise and to the point. If you look at something and the starting point goes round and round, then you will feel like you are getting dizzy while talking about it.

What is additional stimulation?

Take lectures as an example. When I talk, I add my own cases or scenes around you. Then when you listen to this book, you will have a more vivid sense of the picture and be able to immerse yourself in it. It's the so-called additional stimulation.

The book gives a particularly good way to train our understanding. How to do it?

First, like drawing a ruler, draw four horizontal rulers. Write "simple" on the left side of the first ruler, "complex" on the right side, and "0" in the middle; then the simple one on the left side has There are two levels, simple writing "+", the simplest writing "++"; complex writing "-" on the right side, the most complicated writing "--", this is the first ruler.

For the second ruler, on the left is "segmented and organized" and on the right is "chaotic and incoherent", but the middle is still "0"; on the left is "+" and on the far left is "++", and on the right It is "-", and the far right is "--", so that you can see how organized a paragraph is.

On the third scale, "concise" is written on the left and "verbose" is written on the right. You see, they are two opposites, with "0" in the middle; on the left is "+", the far left It is "++", the right side is "-", and the rightmost side is "--".

On the fourth scale, "Additional stimulation" is written on the left, and "No additional stimulation" is written on the right. The middle of the scale is still "0"; the left is "+", the far left is "++", and the right is "-", the rightmost is "--". Picture (Picture: The four dimensions of understanding and the scales for each dimension)

What are the functions of these four scales? When you say something, such as reporting to a leader or communicating intimately with your spouse, in the process, whether the information you convey is simple or complex, organized or chaotic, concise or lengthy, and whether there is additional stimulation, you It doesn't take long to see.

Then, if you want to learn or improve your understanding, you can try to create some simple information texts, such as how your sales performance is this year and how well you are communicating with customers. , you create the text and then read it to friends or family.

Next, have them rate you on the four scales after listening.

If they think it is simple, put a plus sign on the left; if they think it is confusing and incoherent, put a minus sign on the right; if it is concise or lengthy, if there is no conclusion, they can score it on the zero in the middle. ; It’s very graphic and can be scored on the plus side of additional stimulation.

Therefore, if you match your definition with some text, you will find out whether you can output information simply and clearly for others to understand; then through comparative examination, you will understand which of your understanding parameters is insufficient. Just practice improving which one.

For example: You have been giving a report for a long time, but people think it has nothing to do with them. Then you can add some contextualized content to make them feel that they have experienced it in life and let them understand what you are saying. of.

After you add additional stimulating content, your communication skills and understanding will grow and improve. Finally, the four parameters are combined and practiced simultaneously to express content that is easier for people to understand.

This is the practice method introduced by the author in the book.