#25: You Should Be More Tangible

We all know someone who loves to use big words to sound smart, but sometimes they use them incorrectly. Almost 10% of people report encountering someone who uses words incorrectly to sound intelligent. They don’t impress anyone – they embarrass themselves instead! Communication is about more than just using big words…

It’s about conveying your message clearly and effectively and ensuring your audience understands you. So the next time you’re tempted to bust out the thesaurus, take a page out of this FIL’s book and not say something you don’t understand… Sure, he was trying to be mean, but he failed miserably.