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Cut the Hedge
Next time you're about to send a text, write an email, or speak up today — before it goes out, look at what you actually wrote or were about to say.
Find the hedge words. "I think." "Maybe." "Just wondering." "No worries either way." "Sort of."
Cut them. Say the sentence you actually mean, with nothing softening it.
Hedging feels like politeness. It's not — it's a small, invisible way of playing it safe. It leaves you an exit before anyone can push back, which means you never actually said what you meant. You said a smaller, safer version of it and called it the same thing.
Every hedged sentence is a rep of shrinking. Every straight one is a rep of taking up the space you're actually entitled to. Don't live in a box — the version of you that says it straight doesn't need the exit.
Try it once today. Drop the sentence you said straight, hedge-free, below.
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Cut the Hedge
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