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Believing what you say
From the course: Learning Data Science
Believing what you say
- John Steinbeck once said, "A great lasting story is about everyone, or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting. Only the deeply personal and familiar." When you're telling a story, you'll be more persuasive when you're interested in the topic. Your audience will be checking to see if you believe what you're saying. They need to see passion, drive and investment. When I was in law school, I took a course on litigation. This course was on how to connect with people in a jury. The juries would always be curious about your client's story. How did they get there? Why are they being judged? Our professor had been speaking about juries for decades. He gave us some simple advice. He said that when you're telling a story, try to not make it sound extraordinary. Don't try to create some farfetched story about what happened. Focus on what you know. Tell a good story about something ordinary. That's because what you know is the only thing that you can truthfully talk about.…
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