Billion Dollar Tech · 2023-03-03 · 25 min
New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger's cutting-edge research reveals how six types of words can increase your impact in every area of life: from persuading others and building stronger relationships, to boosting creativity and motivating teams. He labels them SPEACC ("speak," phonetically), and they are crucial to understanding if one wants to be a more effective and charismatic speaker. Meanwhile, Jonah explains - using words like seems, think, should - -lessens the effectiveness of speech overall. More specifically, though, there are certain hedging phrases which yield more results than do others, and he discusses them here. He also describes "the copier experiment," wherein one simple word will persuade people to accommodate a request, even if inconvenient. A simple two-letter word modification will convince everyone from children in the classroom to community members during election time to take the desired action. Delegating action versus assigning someone an identity based on that action is a very powerful shift, as Jonah explains. There are six categories under which persuasive language falls, a framework.
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