The Power of 3

When you want to talk about something, you can often get hit with a lot of relevant things to say, and in your head you can believe you have a point. But sometimes, that point doesn’t come across terribly well. You can be talking a fair amount about a topic, but not in a way that your audience understands.

In today’s post, Pete discusses the Power Of 3 in organizing your words to help your audience more quickly and consistentlly understand what you’re talking about.

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when we work with our clients a lot of times they have a ton of information that they want to present and over the course of working with them we help them kind of organize those thoughts so at the beginning they’re pretty chaotic there’s a ton of good information but it’s just kind of a mess and basically what we do is we take this mess and organize it into little piles and we have them talk through the piles from start to finish and ultimately what we found is we are putting the information into three piles and in organizing them into those three piles we get order out of chaos and what they find is okay Yep this is what I’ve been saying all along but yeah now I see how it comes out clearer and more understandable so the first pile is the introdu it’s where you lay out the initial concept the organizing theme the main idea you’re making your point in 30 to 60 seconds at the beginning the second pile is expanding on that theme it’s elaborating on some threads that you introduced in the introduction it’s explaining more about what you mean it’s giving an example it’s running through additional applications of your main point it’s giving more Credence more evidence to this main point that you have already made at the beginning and then the third pile is your main point again but distilled down to a single concept it’s distilled down to ideally an action that you are recommending to your audience so what we recommend that you do when you organize your thoughts is to get it into these three piles figure out what your main point is and then figure out what do you need to say to expand on it and then how do you distill it down to this single concept that’s what we want to recommend to you three piles for all of your information

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