Creative Confidence Podcast

How to Be a Better Presenter: Dav Rauch

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Feb 18, 2020
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ANECDOTE

Neuroscientist's Brain Cap Story

  • Dav recounts meeting a neuroscientist who invented a cap that temporarily induced autistic-like thinking.
  • The cap helped non-autistic people solve the nine-dot puzzle by inhibiting pattern recognition.
INSIGHT

Stories Shift Brains To Imagine

  • Stories shift listeners from left-brain pattern-matching to right-brain imagination, enabling them to process novel ideas.
  • Dav Rauch compares storytelling to a neuroscientific "brain cap" that inhibits patterns and frees imagination.
ADVICE

Use Story Warm-Ups

  • Start presentations with a short storytelling warm-up to move the audience into imaginative mode.
  • Ask attendees to tell quick personal stories to each other to engage the right brain before content delivery.
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