This book helped me A LOT. I read the earlier version and I owe a lot of my skills with this book. My college professor gave it to me. I am forever grateful
Thank you is just a small word for what you have been doing for so many years. *You are changing the lives of millions of people* by providing valuable content, knowledge & wisdom. God bless you always.
This is a very well-known quote, written in a 17th century French style by Nicolas Boileau: "Ce qui se conçoit bien s'énonce clairement et les mots pour le dire viennent aisément,", which roughly translates to:"What is well conceived is clearly stated and the words to say it come easily."
Wonderful... Identify One Key Idea which Reader should take away... Re-write with key words and sentences and make all sentences shorter and simpler. Write as if writing to left but then read as if a reader in a hurry would read. 1st sentence should engage enough to make want to read 2nd. Just awesome... You are doing great 👍🔥😊
BRO YOU ARE INSANE I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL , YOUE CONSISTENCY ON THE CHANNEL IS AWESOME I HAVE A REQUEST FOR THE NEXT VIDEO ON THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG ....
Love the video, thank you. Am I wrong in suggesting that at 4:50 the adverb is 'loudly' as the verb is 'blared'? So would the circled word be 'loudly'? Also, although I enjoyed this vide and Mr. Zinsser's advice, now good writing is racist, just axe some people. Cheers.
I just finished listening to his book The Confident Mind a couple weeks ago. Edited to add this: I picked up the audiobook based on another Productivity Game video about it: th-cam.com/video/ERmsWZ-qw-w/w-d-xo.html
Qualifiers are necessary for explaining where something comes from - your state of mind. Most people are in doubt most of the time about everything even if they won't admit it. Qualifiers also help differentiate between an opinion and a fact. You can't state something as fact when it is just your opinion. Too many writers act as if they know something when they don't, this is fraud. It's okay to not to know, it's not okay to lie and say you do.
Zinsser makes some great points, but I feel a bit iffy about relentlessly cutting and optimising "unnecessary" words. At a certain point it starts to feel a bit like "Newspeak" in 1984, where everything is simplified and reduced to minimal levels and everyone sounds the same. I guess it's a matter of degree and personal choice as to what and how far you cut.
Readers who hate “unnecessary” words? This is not for Literary fiction writers, then. Or 19th century classics’ authors. If you are writing how to manuals for shop classes, this is awesome. If you care about craft or story, read Zinsser’s other books, where he is nothing like this behaviouralist and technocratic. Prose that wins Pulitzers is nothing like this instrumental. Think what kind of opening would hook your reader. But aren’t you the reader you were advised to write to? 😈
Good points but some of them are not useful for scientific writing. Actually you may need to do the opposite. Nonetheless, thank you for the review and video. I enjoy them very much.
Also, the reason you use redundant adjectives (the radio blared loudly) is because readers most-often aren't paying full attention, especially in modern-times. Redundancy can help bolster communication. Then if they miss one key word, they're not missing the point of the sentence.
Utter crap. Should be called "How to Talk to Your CEO." Qualifiers enable us to communicate the truth. They're only "unreadable" when politicians try to stack them and wiggle out of commitments. Saying "I think" reflects that this isn't a studied fact, it's a personal opinion. What is this guy high on?
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This book helped me A LOT. I read the earlier version and I owe a lot of my skills with this book. My college professor gave it to me. I am forever grateful
Thank you is just a small word for what you have been doing for so many years. *You are changing the lives of millions of people* by providing valuable content, knowledge & wisdom. God bless you always.
This is a very well-known quote, written in a 17th century French style by Nicolas Boileau: "Ce qui se conçoit bien s'énonce clairement et les mots pour le dire viennent aisément,", which roughly translates to:"What is well conceived is clearly stated and the words to say it come easily."
The summary of the book that you are presenting are the ones that has stricken me the most. Thank you ON WRTING WELL
I loved your content. The way you narrated it combined with graphics made everything crystal clear.
Waiting for this for a very long way period!!👍🏻
Please do make more videos on this topic!!
Thanks!
Simple but so much information.
absolutely essential! Thank you for the work bro!
Hey man I love everything you post please keep it up im dyslexic and I love all these thank you very much for this
Love this channel and always appreciate the content.
Wonderful...
Identify One Key Idea which Reader should take away...
Re-write with key words and sentences and make all sentences shorter and simpler.
Write as if writing to left but then read as if a reader in a hurry would read.
1st sentence should engage enough to make want to read 2nd.
Just awesome... You are doing great 👍🔥😊
Nice work, Nathan - Glad to see you growing the channel. Love your reads and shares. 👌
Very compact and precise review!!
Please do more reviews on writing well!
BRO YOU ARE INSANE
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL , YOUE CONSISTENCY ON THE CHANNEL IS AWESOME
I HAVE A REQUEST FOR THE NEXT VIDEO ON
THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG ....
Maybe this is useful to me in future. An Intresting way to analyse books from now before reading.
Thank you for posting
really useful -thanks so much for sharing this. I think I'll find this really useful in my writing.
You deserve more views, keep it up
Thank you so much for these. They are very insightful.
Now I'm wondering if I wrote that correctly 😅
Thank you Nathan .
Thanks for the summary. I'm starting to doubt myself... I think the adverb is "loudly" at 4:40.
I love this channel :D
Beautiful summary video as always, thank you for the useful content, keep going
Thank you ❤️
As a non native English speaker this video helped a lot
Thanks
Good recap
Do we think this would apply to communicating verbally as well?
Hi .. can you please do a video on The first minute by Chris Fenning 🙏
excellent!
you should also review "Writing Without Bullshit" by Josh Bernoff
Mantap, nice 👍🏾👍🏾
@Productivity Game would you be willing to discuss the method you use to produce the one page summaries at the end of each video?
Love the video, thank you. Am I wrong in suggesting that at 4:50 the adverb is 'loudly' as the verb is 'blared'? So would the circled word be 'loudly'? Also, although I enjoyed this vide and Mr. Zinsser's advice, now good writing is racist, just axe some people. Cheers.
This was great.
I'm already a well writer.
Can you do the outliers book
Do u read multiple books at a time or one
I just finished listening to his book The Confident Mind a couple weeks ago. Edited to add this: I picked up the audiobook based on another Productivity Game video about it: th-cam.com/video/ERmsWZ-qw-w/w-d-xo.html
That's another Zinsser. :D
@@endlichjura Omg! You’re right! I feel so dumb. 😂 It’s Nate Zinsser. Well, it’s a really good book anyway. Thanks for pointing that out!
I rewrite and try to be concise.
Qualifiers are necessary for explaining where something comes from - your state of mind. Most people are in doubt most of the time about everything even if they won't admit it. Qualifiers also help differentiate between an opinion and a fact. You can't state something as fact when it is just your opinion. Too many writers act as if they know something when they don't, this is fraud. It's okay to not to know, it's not okay to lie and say you do.
Zinsser makes some great points, but I feel a bit iffy about relentlessly cutting and optimising "unnecessary" words. At a certain point it starts to feel a bit like "Newspeak" in 1984, where everything is simplified and reduced to minimal levels and everyone sounds the same.
I guess it's a matter of degree and personal choice as to what and how far you cut.
does anyone know what software he uses to create these animations?
What's your favorite author?
Pretentious words ah, what all the executives use and who we learned them from.
That’s what I was thinking 😆
Can you send me pdf summary
Readers who hate “unnecessary” words? This is not for Literary fiction writers, then. Or 19th century classics’ authors. If you are writing how to manuals for shop classes, this is awesome. If you care about craft or story, read Zinsser’s other books, where he is nothing like this behaviouralist and technocratic. Prose that wins Pulitzers is nothing like this instrumental. Think what kind of opening would hook your reader. But aren’t you the reader you were advised to write to? 😈
Good points but some of them are not useful for scientific writing. Actually you may need to do the opposite. Nonetheless, thank you for the review and video. I enjoy them very much.
Is there a ChatGPT prompt for this? 😆
Leave the rest ....
Ok
Also, the reason you use redundant adjectives (the radio blared loudly) is because readers most-often aren't paying full attention, especially in modern-times. Redundancy can help bolster communication. Then if they miss one key word, they're not missing the point of the sentence.
redundant ...
Utter crap. Should be called "How to Talk to Your CEO." Qualifiers enable us to communicate the truth. They're only "unreadable" when politicians try to stack them and wiggle out of commitments. Saying "I think" reflects that this isn't a studied fact, it's a personal opinion. What is this guy high on?
*DON’T READ IF YOU’RE NOT READY*
🚯🚯🚯🚯🚯
When pressure is mounting from every angle, it can be tough to keep believing in yourself. Whether you’ve had a recent knockdown or are getting started in a new endeavor, Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it’s possible for you because *the greatest achievement begins from deep inside you *(YOUR MIND)*
*I LOVE YOU*