listen, listen, listen. The biggest step I took towards being able to interface my ideas with others was to first listen to their ideas, problems, needs, whatev

listen, listen, listen. The biggest step I took towards being able to interface my ideas with others was to first listen to their ideas, problems, needs, whatever it is they wanted to talk about. You have to make what's important to them important to you before you can do it the other way around - and it's for a bunch of reasons. in attempting to empathize with them you'll have ideas about what they could be doing better to communicate to you (and not make the same mistakes when you're the one talking). You'll build trust in yourself by genuinely caring about their business, and you'll learn what's important to them, which is really the thing you're eventually going to try to plug your ideas into. The magic sauce that makes this work, though, is being genuine. Do the emotional work to really give a damn about the other people around you; which is a lot harder than I think people give credit for, but monumentally more beneficial.