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Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say

Good communication stems from this adage— Say what you mean and mean what you say . If you take care of it in your conversation, you will find that you become a better speaker and eventually people start viewing you as a better person.   There are two aspects of this adage. Maybe you don’t quite understand how this line is relevant on the whole, but when you break it down into its two distinct parts, then you are better able to understand the message that it is trying to convey.   Saying What You Mean   For a person aspiring to be a good conversationalist, this is of utmost importance. You have to always say things that you truly mean. Using words just for the sake of them is something you should never indulge in. It is quite all right to be a person of a few words, but you have to make sure that you mean these words well. By extrapolation, you have to make sure that you don’t say anything that you don’t mean. Don’t say anything that you will regret later. R...