In this brief confidence coaching video, David Price, a public‑speaking coach, highlights two common verbal habits that dilute a speaker’s impact: the filler word “just” and the rhetorical tag “does that make sense?”. He explains that both add no substantive value and actually weaken the message, urging listeners to consciously remove them from their speech to improve clarity and persuasiveness.
David Price here, the short guy who helps you walk tall, and this is Confidence Tip number 104. There's 2 things I'd like you to focus on in your speech. Do you say the word just? And do you say, does that make sense? They're 2 things that people often fall into a habit of saying, but they don't add anything and they actually weaken what is being said. Focus on removing the word just from your vocabulary. And removing the phrase, does that make sense? A lot of people use those all the time, and it reduces the effectiveness of their communication. Just and does that make sense? Eliminate them.
