Earlier today, I went to my manager to ask a question about one of my tasks. I was explaining to him how I was disagreeing with what the client was asking, and I was outlining various reasons as to why the request didn’t make sense to me. It all made complete sense in my mind. When I spoke the words, it all was there as one coherent blob of an idea. However, all my manager could do was go “huh?” Apparently what I thought was a coherent blob was just a lump of mismatched syntax. I got my point across, but I knew that I could have done a much better job of it.
This seems to happen to me frequently. It’s like the words that come out of my mouth are obscured with a mental fog. One of my coworkers joked that he can’t understand what I’m saying half of the time. Yeah, it was meant as a joke, but there’s also rooted in truth. In fact, he heard me talking to my manager today and couldn’t help but laugh.
I often hear people tell me “that didn’t make sense…and yet it did. 
” I’m not intentionally being obscure. Maybe mentally I’m assuming that the person I’m speaking to knows the same unspoken facts that I do about what I’m talking about. Of course, this isn’t always true, but somehow I still manage to leave out stuff I’m subconsciously labelling as “goes-without-saying.”
You know, clarity is over-rated.
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