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jumping into the Q&A Vin how do we
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become more humorous when it comes to
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humor you have to understand there is a
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really big difference between being
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humorous and being haha funny being a
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stand-up comedian and I think sometimes
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people confuse the two often they are
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thinking how do I become a stand-up
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comedian how should I tell jokes how do
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I become extremely funny no no I I think
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you've got to redefine humor and to me
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humor is just this beautiful quality
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that you can bring like right now I
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believe I'm being humorous right and how
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am I being humorous I'm being humorous
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because there's this lightness to me
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there's this part of me that is not too
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serious I've got a smile on my face I'm
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using lots of melody in my voice and and
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all of a sudden because of that I come
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across more
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humorous and I think that's as simple as
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it has to be just record a video of
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yourself talking and just going am I am
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I detecting lightness am I detecting
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lots of Melody am I detecting this kind
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of playfulness and if you if you're
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detecting that that's humor that's all
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that it is right if you've got that
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smile on your face you've got lots of
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Melody you you're you're giving good
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levels of volume that
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alone is humorous we don't have to over
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complicate that VIN do you have any
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advice on how to answer the interview
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question Tell me more about yourself
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with a
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story this is a good one because I think
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a lot of the times interviewers asking
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this as well because they're just so
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bored they're so bored of the answers
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people give in interviews because people
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always do the same thing in interviews
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tell me a little bit about yourself V oh
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well well well look thank you John John
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I I I am a considerate I am very
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thoughtful I'm trustworthy John and John
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I'm I'm also very adventurous John I I
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take a lot of risks and John I'm very
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committed I'm very punctual and and then
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again people just use all these words
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and and interviewers I believe when they
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ask this they're just bored you just
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want to hear something exciting and also
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they ask this because they want to get
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to know you a little more too but if you
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don't know how to story tell then even
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when they ask for a story that's what
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you do you just kind of give them
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adjectives about who you are you give
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them descriptive phrases no tell a story
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what you can do is like if for me I've
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got a back pocket full of stories to be
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able to throw at any time so if one of
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the jobs I'm applying for requires me to
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take lots of risks and do things that
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you know sometimes can be scary and
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require courage then I can share a story
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like this with John so John goes tell me
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a little bit about yourself VIN thanks
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John John I can tell you this about
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about 5 years ago I told my parents that
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I wanted to become a magician and I was
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on the path to becom an accountant I
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know not fulfilling the Asian prophecy
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at this point John's probably laughing
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and then building connection endorphins
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dopamine all being released wonderful
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and I said John I quit with 6 months
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left to go on my degree and I share this
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brief moment of my life with you because
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I'm not afraid to take risks and I'm not
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afraid to go against the grain because I
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can tell you now everybody in my circle
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at that point everybody in my extended
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family at that point they were going
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with the grain I'm not afraid to go the
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opposite way when everybody is going
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that way and John that's one of the main
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reasons why I think I'm perfect for this
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role I'm perfect for this role because I
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don't follow the crowd and I know that's
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a trait you're looking for so I didn't
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even tell that full story I just gave a
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little snapshot of that story because
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again in interviews I know I want to be
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Snappy and quick but all of a sudden now
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instead of just saying I'm a risk taker
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what does that even bloody mean the
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person's probably thinking provide some
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evidence please that's why they're
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asking for the story is because they're
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asking for some evidence to back it up
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and another example I mean I I I I see
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in the comments people really like
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pragmatic examples so I'll give you
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another example let's say I'm going for
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a job where I have to be very Innovative
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innov Innovative I have to be really
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good at innovation see what I did there
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just change the way you say it how would
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I share a story for that and I'm just
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thinking in my head if I had to be
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really good at Innovation for a certain
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role you see what I'm doing now is I'm
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just thinking back in my head for
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stories where I think
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I okay I got one and the reason I have
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these stories is because I document them
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if you can't think of stories like that
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well it's because you don't document
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them I document my stories and I review
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my stories so if I was talking to uh if
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I was talking to Sarah and Sarah goes
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you are applying for head of innovation
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and V I'd love you to hear a story about
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yourself and and and and an example of
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in your life where where you you you
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really displayed that Innovative way of
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thinking this is what I would say
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Sarah do you remember
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20121 this was when everything changed
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actually it was 2020 my apologies in
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early 2020 Co happened and Sarah when Co
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happened my business was purely running
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in-person events and I I still remember
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my agent calling me saying hey Vin your
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entire business is now shut down the
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government has shut down all Live Events
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and I remember getting that call on
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March 19th and I freaked out I freaked
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out and I'll be quite Frank with you I
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think the whole world was freaking out
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but instead of freaking out for 5 years
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and instead of freaking out for 12
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months I freaked out for a total of
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about a week and I gave myself
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permission to just express myself and
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and and and just go little bit crazy but
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then after about a week I I remember
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thinking all right then what can you
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control and what can't you control let's
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just focus on the things you can control
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and so I went out to a video store and I
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bought $50,000 worth of video a gear
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because I knew they had a refund policy
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of 30 days so I knew that whatever I
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don't use I can return it in 30 days but
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I for 30 days basically became Iron Man
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inside my garage and that's when I was
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building my virtual Studio sah I built
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my virtual studio so that I could teach
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people remotely and I did this in the
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second week of Co and Sarah I remember I
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I I got a message from the CEO of one of
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the world's largest speaking bureaus and
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he said something to me and I felt so
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proud of this and I hope you don't mind
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me sharing where he said
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Vin you have become a leader in this
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speaking space you are doing all the
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hard work and you're sharing all of
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these Innovations with the rest of the
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industry I'm so proud of you
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and and that moment Sarah I I I couldn't
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believe it but I I was the person
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leading the charge in the speaking and
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training
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space I was innovating a space that has
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not been innovated for over a 100 years
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and and Sarah now I teach people from
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all over the world
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online still from my
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garage you know so I I share this this
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story with you simply because that's why
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I believe I am the perfect fit for this
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head of innovation role I will be able
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to Iron
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Man out of Iron Man things out of the
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simplest tools and I'll be able to find
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a way out that no one's seen before okay
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there you go we can polish it we can
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make it better but that gives you a
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sense of how I would use that story
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right and I only have these stories
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again because I've documented them and
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if you document them you'll have them
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too and that makes for a far more
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interesting interview
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than if you just recited descriptive
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phrases hey Vin I notice I keep
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scratching the back of my neck and I
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keep scratching my face when I'm telling
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a story is this a bad habit first part
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of your question if you keep doing it
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right if you keep doing it like if I
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kept doing this you know if I just kept
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doing this every single say 20 seconds
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and you know if I if I just kind of kept
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doing you know things like this then the
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Golden Rule would that distract people
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from the message yes it would so then
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you have to recalibrate and go okay all
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right I need to reduce this if you do
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this once every 30 minutes because your
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face is actually itchy and your neck is
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itchy scratch your face scratch your
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neck it's all good it's totally fine
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right otherwise You' look even more
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weird you know when you get an itch and
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then you don't scratch it and you're
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kind of
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like then always seem like you've got a
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weird twitch so just scratch it it's
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totally fine but if you're always doing
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it then it's just like non-words and
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filler words nonwords and filler words
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um and so like do you know what I mean
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those things they are
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auditory they're auditory
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clutter it's auditory clutter that
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distracts people from the message and
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decreases your Clarity when you scratch
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your neck and you do all of these
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different things for me it's the classic
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adjusting of the glasses all of these
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things are visual clutter visual clutter
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that decreases your credibility that
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decreases Clarity same thing so there is
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such thing as visual clutter as well
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well done on paying attention to that
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apply the Golden Rule I want to
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understand how to curate short stories
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in order to shorten stories if you feel
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your stories are too long here are three
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ways to help you shorten your story
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number one focus on telling the part of
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the story where the most amount of
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action was occurring like the story of
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how I met my my wife earlier that day
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before I met my wife right I went to the
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shuton Fest which is a German festival
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in South Australia and I I for the first
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time had a German sausage and it was
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Bloody delicious it was filled with
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cheese and it was so young I didn't talk
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about any of that I didn't talk about
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any of that because to me where the
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majority of the action occurred for the
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story was when I saw my my my wife at
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the bar so by focusing on the action
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part he allows you to shorten the story
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second tip for shortening stories is
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focus on the peak emotion where in the
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story was the emotion heightened where
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was the most of amount of emotion
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present where was that and wherever that
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was Focus just on that bit and again it
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helps you tighten that up again and then
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the third way to shorten stories is
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focus on which part of the story where
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was The Lesson Learned was there a piece
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of wisdom in the story and wherever that
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piece of wisdom was in the story only
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Tell the part of the story around where
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you realize the lesson and again I can
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do this cool sound effect it allows you
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to pull that story nice and tight again
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so Peak action Peak emotion and where
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was the main lesson Lear learned those
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are three ways to about a shorten the
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story you told the story only around
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those three Arenas my God I'm good at
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that sound
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effect this instrument is capable of so
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many incredible things start to explore
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it more and don't be afraid to do things
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you're not familiar with there's a
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future version of
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you that will only exist if the present
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version of you is willing to venture out
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of its company Z
