The ultimate result of your communication is when your audience passes your message along. But will they?
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When we tell our story, let's say on a website or in a podcast,
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in a keynote, in a blog post.
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When we tell our story, the ultimate result is when
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people pass our message along.
But let's face it:
passing anything along is kind of a risk for your audience.
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Think about yourself.
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When, for example, you recommend something to someone, you're
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extending your credibility to the thing that you recommend.
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That's why you probably recommend only things that you
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feel comfortable with yourself.
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It doesn't stop there.
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You intuitively understand that ultimately, the person who asked for
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your opinion needs to be happy with the thing you recommended to them.
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And so, you put one extra layer of carefulness on top of your recommendation
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because what if they don't like it, right?
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It would be a threat to your status.
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On the other hand, the more someone can be sure that the thing they pass along
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will boost their status, the more likely they are to actually pass it along.
So a crucial question is:
will it boost your audience's status
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when they pass your message along?
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And if not, what would make it so?
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What's missing so that they will no longer see it as a risk
