Dean Leak Mindset Coach

What did you see?

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Maybe this is a model for healthy discourse and disagreement.

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How to respond to difficult questions. How to navigate a disagreement.

It’s all starting to unravel 🤷🏽‍♂️

using a good old rhetorical device to show a gaping contradiction with Reform Party. Reform exposed again.

It’s relates to the Somali born comments made by Zia Yusuf re Sagal Abdi-Wali.

Don’t get into an argument, just expose the gaping hole in their argument.

The power of persuasion 👏

“Imagine” is such a curiosity provoking word that opens people’s minds to possibility (or contradictions)! But silence does the work. I call this the ‘Imagine Gap’. Say your thing, give space for people to process. I love how he ends on a moral question 🎤🫶

Former President Barack Obama on the Trump administration’s during an interview at Hamilton College in New York.

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The best communicators use these rhetorical communication skills. Here’s a breakdown of what I spotted.

Go practice in some of your next conversations:

👉 no. 1: The Punchline First
He opens with the conclusion, not the build-up: “The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.” Most speeches build to a punchline, he leads with it in this case

More in the comments 👇

Incredibly well crafted argument vhs.charlotte9 👏👏

on Motherhood 👏👏

You can feel guilt AND choose yourself at the same time. You can feel joy, and anger at all once.

But for woman, this is seen as selfish.

We need to learn one of life’s most important ideas. Duality. Feeling multiple things at once.

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How to argue your point 👏

Dr Carissa Véliz making her point in the Wonder Struck interview. How often do we now hear this line ‘AI is inevitable’ as a means to justify.

Here’s the framework. More in the comments:

1. claim
2. signal
3. reason
4. reframe
5. redirect

“Canadians don’t submit to the weather…

…we thrive in it” 👏

Generational leader. He clever balances logos, ethos and pathos.

But too many communicators only speak in logos (statistics, data, evidence).

He communicates heavily in ethos (measured statesmanship) and pathos (story, emotion, metaphors).

Follow me for more on disagreeing better and storytelling.

A speech worth saving 👏👏

Mark Carney speaking about recent trade talks with Donald Trump.

He’s a brilliant orator, perhaps one of the best in recent times.

What do you notice about his communication and leadership?