Why Your Long Emails Are Just Assignments in Disguise
00:00:00.000 | I always start with that.
00:00:01.540 | What is the purpose of this email
00:00:03.360 | is to teach them like a specific lesson
00:00:05.540 | or get them to take a specific action.
00:00:07.360 | It generally makes everything a lot more interesting.
00:00:09.240 | So finding the reason is the first thing
00:00:11.840 | that people need to do
00:00:12.900 | if they're gonna write about something
00:00:14.140 | before they ever start writing.
00:00:15.360 | Okay, so do you do that anytime you're sending a memo,
00:00:17.940 | writing an email?
00:00:18.760 | Let's pretend I've gotta send an email
00:00:20.840 | to someone I collaborate with at work
00:00:23.160 | to try to get them to see my perspective on a project.
00:00:25.980 | So instead of just me raw dumping all my thoughts
00:00:28.920 | onto an email and expecting them to read it,
00:00:31.280 | I'm thinking about them.
00:00:32.400 | If I just raw dump full page or two of my thoughts,
00:00:35.500 | now they have to read this.
00:00:36.700 | This is giving them more work.
00:00:38.240 | So anytime I get a long email too,
00:00:39.880 | someone's like, hey, can you help me with this?
00:00:41.480 | I'm like, you're giving me an assignment?
00:00:42.720 | Now I have more work because of you.
00:00:44.220 | So I always think like,
00:00:45.020 | how can I make this person's life easier?
00:00:46.740 | And so I could just say,
00:00:47.840 | hey, Chris, I have thoughts on this.
00:00:49.380 | You got time in 10 minutes to talk,
00:00:51.280 | call my number, something like that.
00:00:52.620 | Something that's very easy for them
00:00:54.340 | or give them bullet points of what I'm thinking.
00:00:56.700 | And then maybe we could discuss it further.