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TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Risk of Cliche in Forms of Communication

TED talks have a way of becoming cliche if they stay the same for too long. You and your podcasts explore issues with far more nuance than as possible in other forms online in written forms. The ability to tell a story that can inform and warn and excite people is an ancient, powerful form of communication. A speaker instead of looking at 150 people around a campfire can reach a million people worldwide.

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