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Top tip for 2026...STOP over-explaining yourself

Name: Top tip for 2026...STOP over-explaining yourself
Uploaded: 2025-12-30T15:46:40+00:00
Duration: 57 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief YouTube monologue, Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP, presents a communication strategy for 2026 centered on saying less. She contrasts two metaphors: a…

30 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube monologue, Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP, presents a communication strategy for 2026 centered on saying less. She contrasts two metaphors: a "waterfall" of information, which overwhelms and confuses the listener, versus a "well" of knowledge, which delivers concise, confident answers that precisely meet the listener’s needs. Liu advises speakers to answer directly, provide only what is asked, and trust that the audience will request further details if needed, rather than over‑explaining or people‑pleasing. The core message is to adopt brevity, confidence, and trust in the listener’s curiosity as a more effective way to communicate.

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One of the top communication strategies of this year is saying less. Instead of being a waterfall, be a well. Rather than feeling like you have to gush information and give them way too much, and so much so that the message just gets swept away, a waterfall of information, more than they can possibly even hold at that moment where it's going to confuse them, it's going to overwhelm them. Be a well. A well is very confident in the depth of its knowledge. A well is always going to give you exactly what you came there to get. So if somebody needs something from you, you're going to answer concisely. You're going to say less, and if they have more questions, they're going to ask you. This is the time. This is the season of your life that you're going to trust that if somebody needs something, they will ask. You're not going to just selflessly give and people-please and try to over-explain because that's not helping them. You're trying to do it to help yourself. You can try that and follow me, and I'll see you next year.