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The Explain-It Card
Skill sets your floor, explaining sets your ceiling. Turn one concept into one clean sentence.
Clarity drill
The Explain-It Card
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Skill sets your floor, explaining sets your ceiling. Turn one concept into one clean sentence.
THE STORY
Tesla died broke, Edison died rich
The gap wasn't genius. It was who could make it make sense. The real test of whether you own a skill: can you teach it with no notes and guarantee the result. Until you can, you are leveraging talent, not skill.
The concept (from class, this week)
My one-sentence client version
Zero jargon words
If a word needs its own explanation, it doesn't belong in the sentence.
One breath long
If you'd need to inhale twice, cut it in half.
Ends on why it matters
A definition informs. A consequence lands.
An AI coach reads your work against the FMA playbook. Education, not financial advice.
FMA coach
The best model in the room loses to the clearest sentence in the room.Genius needs a translator. Be both.
Clear beats clever.
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