The goal isn’t to become the person who always has the shortest answer.
Sometimes complicated work needs a complicated answer.
The goal is to become someone who can look at complexity and determine where the complexity is necessary and where it isn’t.
Then you make the useful parts easier to understand and the unnecessary parts easier to remove.
That might mean improving a process.
It might mean changing a report.
It might mean asking a better question.
It might mean explaining a difficult subject in a way that finally makes sense to someone else.
Or it might simply mean helping a team stop spending energy on something that doesn’t deserve so much attention.
People who can handle complexity are valuable. People who can turn complexity into clarity are often even more valuable.
Because when you make complicated work simpler, you don’t just make your own job easier.
You make it easier for other people to do good work too.