Take good notes
Robin Harford added
Storytelling: A tremendously useful tool to increase the longevity of your message in the audience’s mind. Stories spark emotions. People use stories to make sense of things. People learn from stories.
Moi Jamri added
stories are told and retold because they contain wisdom. Stories are effective teaching tools. They show how context can mislead people to make the wrong decisions. Stories illustrate causal relationships that people hadn’t recognized before and highlight unexpected, resourceful ways in which people have solved problems.
Dan Heath • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Think of yourself not just as a taker of notes, but as a giver of notes—you are giving your future self the gift of knowledge that is easy to find and understand.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Lael Johnson and added
The Storyteller's Secret: From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don't
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Claudia and added
When we hear stories, should we be more suspicious? and what kind of stories should we be suspicious of? Again, I'm telling you it's the stories that you like the most, that you find the most rewarding, the most inspiring. The stories that don't focus on opportunity cost, or the complex, unintended consequences of human action, because that very of... See more
Tyler Cowen • Be suspicious of stories | Tyler Cowen | TEDxMidAtlantic
Tanuj added
The best stories are often the trickiest ones. The good and bad things about stories is they're a kind of filter. They take a lot of information, and they leave some of it out, and they keep some of it in. But the thing about this filter, it always leaves the same things in. You're always left with the same few simple stories.
Tyler Cowen • Be suspicious of stories | Tyler Cowen | TEDxMidAtlantic
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