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How to Write and Speak with Greater Impact | One-Shot #19

Unthinkable with Jay Acunzo

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Ira Glass' Voiceover - The Thing About

Ira Glass is often said, this audio stuff that we do isn't especially didactic medium where you need to spell things out. Effective storytellers move us. They move us towards meaning. We can all become more effective storytellers if we just remember one simple but powerful phrase the next time we communicate. That's the thing about sharing our stories with clarity describing a sequence of actions which creates and resolves tension by introducing and then answering questions on the audience's mind. It's like just by virtue of being strangers, they see us more clearly so we care about their opinion more than that of those close to us. For the boy who cried wolf, that's the thingabout lying

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