Think about how you can chunk similar ideas together. I think that idea of chunking is really, really powerful. In fact, i just work with somebody in a very similar vein where there surprisingly were ten ideas and we were able to cluster them together. The centre for interest in the public health realized that movie popcorn had 30 grams of saturated fat. And they were outraged. They needed to make it more relatable. So now people are outraged. Movie popcorn sales plum itand the industry is forced to change their ingredients solutely.
As communicators, we often need to take complex information (e.g., financial, technical, or scientific) and make it more understandable for our audience – we’re experts and they likely aren’t. But having so much knowledge on the topics we discuss can often make the job more difficult: we dive in too quickly, forget about our audience's needs, or use jargon that goes over their heads.
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, strategic communications lecturers Matt Abrahams and Lauren Weinstein explore the “curse of knowledge” and offer specific techniques you can use to be more successful in getting your point across.
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