<story><title>Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity</title><url>https://iandanielstewart.com/2024/06/09/engage-your-audience-by-getting-to-the-point-using-story-structure-and-forcing-specificity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danybittel</author><text>Vicky is not talking about the a story structure. If you followed a story structure, you start with how you&amp;#x27;ve been (I always loved windows), then what happened (I got an automatic update), then piles of problems (The computer wouldn&amp;#x27;t start, lost some data, couldn&amp;#x27;t reinstall windows) then the solution (until I installed Linux) the moral (use Linux).&lt;p&gt;Vickys structure is sort of the opposite. Start with the most important part (You should use Linux), go deeper (for example Gnome, for desktop) or add surprise (it&amp;#x27;s very easy to install), open the conversation with a question (do you use Linux?) or close it with an answer (it doesn&amp;#x27;t have automatic updates).&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why this blog post is kind of a mess, with conflicting ideas.</text></comment>
<story><title>Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity</title><url>https://iandanielstewart.com/2024/06/09/engage-your-audience-by-getting-to-the-point-using-story-structure-and-forcing-specificity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bawolff</author><text>I found myself first agreeing with this, and then hating the examples used.&lt;p&gt;I think the part i liked boils down to: have a thesis and be very upfront on what it is. Everything you say should build up that thesis.&lt;p&gt;To a lesser extent, i also agree with the idea that presentations should (usually) have a narrative structure, but i wouldn&amp;#x27;t put it the same way they did.&lt;p&gt;But at the same time, when they started to go into examples, everything started to sound click-baity. &amp;quot;One important thing you have to know about X&amp;quot; just feels like a click-bait headline. It also kind of assumes that i want to know one thing about X. Maybe i would rather know zero things. The &amp;quot;why&amp;quot; is left unadressed.</text></comment>