Kyle Balmer explains how to avoid sounding robotic in videos and sales pitches by adding emotional hooks and storytelling. He shares advice from a mentor about a January launch and recommends keeping a daily written collection of short story hooks to use in public speaking and content.
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Do you sound like a robot when you talk? This is a problem that I personally have, and I've got a few tips that I've been given that I want to share with you and maybe it can help you too. Whenever I do content like this on video or sales pitches, for example, I tend to be very information focused. I focus on the A, B, C, the logical, systematic information. That's just kind of how my brain works, I think in systems. However, I don't necessarily use emotional hooks or storytelling when I talk. It's just not something. Something that I do. I've just got off a call of a mentor and we're preparing for a big launch up in January. And one of the things he has suggested and challenged me to do is to start to layer storytelling and emotional hooks into my speaking. And one of the really useful tactics he's given me that I wanted to pass on to you is keeping a book. So basically, in this book, once a day you're going to write down one or two little story hooks that have happened during that day. This is basically a bank of stories that you can draw on at any time. The practice is actually writing them down in a succinct manner and then later deploying them in your public speaking.