The notion of using ampathy to demonstrate familiarity, i think, is a really interesting tool for those who craft communications. Do you have a favorite tool that you listen for or look for in what you write or you read? For example, do i love oliteration? I'm very attentive to the use of certain words and also not reinforcing certain associations with people of color.
“Make them want to turn the page,” says Paula Moya, a professor at Stanford University and author of The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Moya sits down with strategic communication lecturer Matt Abrahams to share how the elements of story can be used in other types of communication. Create compelling situations, full of sense and surprise, she says. Create characters we can empathize with; speak your written sentences aloud, and, Moya advises, think of the images your words may conjure up and how they may be interpreted by different audiences.
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