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268: Decoding Greatness with Ron Friedman

Pivot with Jenny Blake

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How to Write a Powerful Opening Statement

I just love that you have a powerful words bucket, collection bucket and then transitions and good in terms of phrase because I will often highlight those in my Kindle but that's where they stay. Love that you actually pull out transition sentences that are compelling to you. And do you then draw from those kind of borrow from them when you write your next thing or mostly collecting them to learn from them? I definitely don't borrow them. What I do do is use them as inspiration. So it's kind of like inspiration more than anything else. But I do go further and for example with opening sentences what I will try to understand the pattern. So here's an example of a powerful opening sentence.

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