This resonates with me. My writing is clear and concise, I'm proud of it, and it pays off because I can communicate effectively. I'm not sure I agree with the "undervalued", in so far that I see a _lot_ of people who are not able to write clearly, and they get ahead and along just fine. Many executives who I worked with wrote terrible emails (sometimes they leave out the negation, so I'm guessing whether they mean X…
I wonder if they have a junior person that does/did the writing for them. Reminds me of a story about fighter pilots from World War 2. Some of the best fighter pilot aces had, at best, average vision. Their coping strategy for this was to find pilots who weren't as good at dogfighting but had excellent vision as wingmen. Both parties benefited since the better pilot could spot enemy planes earlier and the lesser pilo…
He showed me how as a fighter pilot he was trained to spot other aircraft.
When one would show up on the radar he would point and be like see that plane over there? I could never see it until we were very close and I have great vision and no glasses.
After a few times of this game he then said, "Now when you are looking for another aircraft you don't focus on where it is, scan your eyes left to right horizontally".
Now I was able to pick out the what seemed like 1-2 pixel dot in the distance by not trying to focus on the dot but look at everything else and your brain somehow figures out the anomalous pixel/dark spot against the horizon.
It reminded me a lot of when I was a kid bird hunting how my dad would try to point at the partridge and it was the same game. You try to focus directly at them and it was hard to see them in the brush, but scanning your eyes back and forth helps make them pop out and be visible.