You’ll have to experiment. Being specific will generally speaking, produce better results, but how specific you need to be will depend on you, your servitor and the thing you’re trying to achieve.
Consider this metaphor:
If I ask you to ‘Go Learn Korean’ – that’s a big task with a LOT of sub-tasks. Before you’d even be able to start, you’d have to formulate a plan and then you’d have to attack it one sub-task (or more likely, one sub-sub-task!) at a time. You could be successful with this task, no doubt, but it might take a while!
However, if I say instead, ‘Go learn the Korean Alphabet’ that’s a smaller task and leaves less to your interpretation. You’re more likely to be successful with it in a shorter time frame.
If we ‘chained’ several of these short, easier-to-be-successful missions together, you might find that you’ve learned Korean much faster than you would’ve if we’d just started with the big one.
Similarly, if you ask your servitor, ‘Manifest me a million dollars’ that’s a big task with a LOT of sub-tasks and a lot of potential approaches. ‘Drive traffic to my website and help convince people to buy my book’ is a much smaller task (though still big!) with less room for interpretation. I’d expect a lot better success out of the second direction than the first.
In practice, you’ll find some kinds of commands need more specificity than others. ‘Please get rid of these bugs’ or ‘Please make my headache go away’ is plenty specific enough, for example. If you’re getting results with the way you’re already communicating with them, then why change something that’s working?
But if you’re not getting results with the kind of things you’re asking for, then this is a worthwhile knob to twist.
Yes-ish. These servitors are very smart and especially when worn, they seem like they’re very skilled at reading us. They get to know us really well from working with us. But it doesn’t necessarily follow that they ‘understand our situation’.
Consider just how big that phrase is. Situation in what? What even is a ‘situation’? That’s potentially a big concept (with a lot going on inside it) to toss around. They might get it with no trouble, but how would you know?
If you’ve got a good two-way communication going with them, they’ll tell you when they don’t get it. If you’re not there yet, it seems worthwhile to assume they don’t know ‘why’ money matters to you or how to best attract a new girlfriend or when to add their healing power to your own. They might! But you’re not going to hurt them (or yourself!) by asking them to find out more about it or do a little research to understand. Just talking to them and explaining it can go a long way.
I may also just be more ‘conservative’ about them, having worked so much with the previous generations and they may not need all the ‘extra’ hand holding, so definitely experiment with it yourself and find out what works for you and what doesn’t. I tend to default towards providing more background information rather than less and it works well for me.
Again, if you’re getting the desired results, then there’s no need to change anything. But asking your Servitors to Learn More about (X) or Get Better at (Y) or Practice (Z) are great knobs to turn if you aren’t getting the results you’re looking for.