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The Banned Phrase
medium growth 480 min +40 XP
Pick the phrase you use to close conversations — fine, as usual, busy — and ban it for a day.
Why this matters
Everyone has a phrase that closes a conversation before it starts. Remove it and you have to say something real.
What to do
The night before, choose your filler phrase: fine, as usual, busy, all good, I will tell you later. Write it on a scrap of paper and keep it in your pocket all day as a reminder. Every time it wants to come out, replace it with one concrete sentence about what is actually going on: tired after that client call, still angry since yesterday, pleased I finished the draft. No confessions needed — one accurate sentence instead of an empty one is enough. Notice who you hand the filler to most often: it is usually the same person. In the evening count how many times you caught yourself and how many times it slipped through.
Afterwards
Whose questions do I shut down with that phrase — and what happens if one day I do not?
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