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State the Facts. Tell the Truth.

Name: State the Facts. Tell the Truth.
Uploaded: 2024-08-02T15:00:35+00:00
Duration: 24 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this spoken excerpt, the speaker recounts an experience with a coworker who routinely downgraded optimistic projections, which frustrated the speaker…

2 Aug 2024 · 0 min

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In this spoken excerpt, the speaker recounts an experience with a coworker who routinely downgraded optimistic projections, which frustrated the speaker. This led to the adoption of a personal marketing mantra—"state the facts and tell the truth"—that emphasizes presenting exact, decimal-level figures rather than rounded or optimistic estimates. The speaker now consistently frames any numerical claim as a factual statement, refusing to qualify it with potential improvements or speculative scenarios.

I had a coworker a couple of years ago. He's like, you know, there's like Alex numbers, you're optimistic. So I always have to downgrade what your numbers are. And I was like, well, that sucks. I don't want people to have to downgrade my shit. That's why state the facts and tell the truth has become a huge mantra in terms of my marketing. I just want everything to be to the fucking decimal. And so every time I had an opportunity where I'm like, I'm about to state numbers, instead of saying rounding up or saying like, this is what it could be if we made a couple of these changes, I say, this is what it is. These are the facts.