Avoid this phrase altogether!

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Mitu100@
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Avoid this phrase altogether!

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If a blogger or an author writes something like that, I can no longer take him seriously. If an "expert" says something like that in a discussion group, he has disqualified himself.



45) You can’t

We generalize the last two points. You can. Most of the time.

When someone says or writes that you cannot denmark telegram screening do something, there are two possibilities:

It is a mental block. The example of the mile race is a good example here. Until 1954, the world agreed that humans could not run the English mile in under four minutes. Then Roger Bannister came along and ran in 3:59.4 minutes. Shortly afterwards, several runners beat the unattainable time.
It is a prohibition (see point 43). "You can't do that!" is an exclamation that means: "You are not allowed to do that."
Avoid mental blocks and prohibitions!

Your readers don't want to be given instructions. They are familiar with them from school, university and their jobs.

Your readers want creative, surprising solutions. And instead of saying “You can do that…” you go a step further and write “You can do that.”

This brings us to the next point.

46) Man

This slippery eel should no longer appear in your sea of ​​text. Exterminate the species!
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