Marcus Musashi
@MarcusMusashi
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Culture & Travel Photographer 📸 🌏 --- #Photography #WorldTraveler #AI --- Founder of @OurLastCentury
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Joined December 2023
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A perfect comparison photo to showcase how China has boomed in the last 40 years. I've been to China 3 times in 2024, and was very impressed by it. It feels like The New World, and the West feels like The Old World. .
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There have been 270 mass shootings in the USA this year compared to 2 in the EU. I like the whole idea of having guns against a tyrannical government, but man, these numbers don't lie. 🙄.
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Put in the hours, do the homework, prepare, study, practice. Roleplay. Adapt. Experiment. Sharpen the axe more. ) Have a Grand Finale: a rousing finish, make them leave on a high, use a piledriver, a tremendous whack, something memorable!. What a book! 😍😍😍.
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) What do you want out of your speech? Think about that deeply. What are you trying to get done?. ) About stage fright and nerves: Take a deep breath and tell your body to chill out. Keep calm and carry on. ) Use humor: it’s the shock absorber of life.
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) When speaking: Stand straight, speak calmly, smile a little bit, don’t be afraid to pause, don’t fidget, don’t cross your arms, no slouching, no mumbling and murmuring. No ‘uhmms, uhh, like and y’knows’ . Keep confident eye contact about 60-70% of the time.
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) Positive Visualization: Projecting yourself succeeding helps with confidence. See yourself winning. ) Look fear in the face: You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ) Bodylanguage accounts for 55%, tone of voice 38%, and your words just 7%.
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) Confidence in Latin is fidere, meaning: to trust. Confidence comes with familiarity. Familiarity comes with experience. Experiences comes from trying new things. Confidence is crucial for winning arguments. Confidence is like respect, you have to earn it.
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) Call bullshit on the bullshitter. Ask them to explain their stance in detail. Expose the overall strategy. You can even make them wallow in heir own bullshit. ) Positive Visualization: Projecting yourself succeeding helps with confidence. See yourself winning.
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) Use a Zinger; a fantastic one-liner. ) Comebacks require a good ear, a nimble brain, a sharp wit, and a comic’s timing.
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) Don’t tell too make jokes though. It’s not a standup show. ) Use the Rule of Three: the magic number. One trium perfectum. Use three for completeness, wholeness and roundness. It’s the perfect structure (Introduction, Body, Conclusion). Use it to be memorable.
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) Learn to become an empathetic listener if you truly want to connect with your audience. ) Laughter is a universal language, one that all humans speak. If they are laughing or smiling, they are engaged, by you, they’re paying attention, to you!. ) Use the comic pause.
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) Make your objections politely. No need to name-call or belittle if you have your argument, facts, and evidence right. Get it wrong, and your attack could backfire on you. ) Make eye contact with your audience/opponent.
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) Make sure you have the receipts to back up your claim. Physical receipts/proof work best in a physical debate. The receipts do the heavy lifting. ) To challenge your opponents, go for the three Cs: their character, credentials, and their claims.
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) When facts vs feelings fight, feelings often win. ) To win the argument, connect emotions and evidence; you need both feelings and facts.
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) The introduction and the conclusion of the speech are the most important parts. Start with emotion and end with emotion. ) The political brain is an emotional brain.
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) Use great anecdotes and gripping narratives. You need decisive language if you want to move your listeners. ) Remain calm, cool, and collected.
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) We are feeling machines that think. And we are hardwired for storytelling. We are the Storytelling Animal. ) Those who tell stories rule society. Stories are 22x more memorable than just facts alone.
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) Our feeling rarely care about facts. You have to appeal to people’s hearts, not just their heads. Make them care. The heart steers the head.
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) The audience came to see YOU. Connect with them. Heap praise on them. Let them relate to you, the real YOU. Let them imagine what it is like to be in your shoes. Real people have real feelings.
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