Curious about the power of AI in storytelling? The host playfully interviews an AI, exploring its role as a collaborative creative partner. They discuss Hemingway's masterful brevity in storytelling and strategies to overcome public speaking anxiety. Personal anecdotes add spice, with tips on rethinking presentations. Plus, listeners learn to dissect narratives and discover the magic of surprise in storytelling, creating emotional impact. It's a delightful journey into blending technology with the art of narrative.
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Brevity in Storytelling
Tell short stories, especially under 60 seconds, to be impactful.
Structure short stories like Hemingway: 20 seconds to excite, 20 to disturb, 20 to assure.
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Overcoming Storytelling Nerves
Nervousness is a common storytelling mistake driven by glossophobia.
Reframe presentations as gifts to the audience, shifting from fear to value exchange.
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Presenting to the CEO
Jeremy Waite recounts overcoming stage fright when presenting to IBM's CEO.
He learned to practice until he couldn't get it wrong, adapting his story to different time slots.
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I just asked an AI to INTERVIEW ME and here's what happened!!! 🤯 Everything in this clip is real and the only thing I have edited is the sound quality. (I can't export audio yet from the LLM so I needed to use a lav mic).
I gave the AI model my social media posts, my Linkedin profile and my podcast as a basis for her to ask me questions - so that we could have a conversation about the art & science of business storytelling.
This is only a short playful exercise using the paid version of ChatGPT-4o - but it really shows how much fun anyone can have with AI as your creative collaborator.
Too many folks are still using AI to just do basic tasks, such as writing emails or creating exec summaries of large documents - but the real power is in using it as a critical thinking assistant, or as a curator of content, to help you think about something differently.
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