3 steps to effectively articulate your thoughts | Alan Alda

Make it simple. Make it clear. Make it stick. Alan Alda on how to get everyone to understand your thoughts.

Alan Alda generally doesn't like writing tips because he believes they can be mechanical and not effective in connecting with the audience. Instead, he advocates for a process that transforms a person's ability to communicate naturally. However, if pressed, he does have a few tips that he follows, which he calls the "three rules of three."

These include only saying three important things when speaking to others, presenting a difficult idea in three different ways, and repeating a difficult idea three times throughout a talk.

Alda emphasizes that these tips should not be treated as a checklist, but rather as part of a process of becoming a better communicator through developing a connection with the audience.

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[lordmortimer]

I’m convinced either YouTube or Alan Alda are watching me and recommended this to me at the time I needed it most.

[richardcramer]

I believe the world is a better place with men like this.

[alysononoahu]

Ist rule. Say only 3 things
2nd rule. Repeat in different ways
3rd tip. Repeat 3 times
It's a process

[unsung]

Terrific. Mr Alda's voice still captivates me.

[mafia]

Wow, just wow. Everyone should hear this. I work in the health field, and a lot of the times I get the feeling that care providers usually talk to the patient instead of with the patient saying things that the patient needs and what not. I see visually that the patient is not all caught up when the provider is making their closing remarks and then asks, "Do you have any questions?" It becomes a monologue and a sort of one sided lecture instead of communication. I very much dislike it, but that's what happens when people stick to protocol and reduce the patient to a number instead of a living breathing person, and also I'm afraid to say, sometimes even reduce the patient to a liability in fears of legal action, of coarse that's what I've gathered from talks but it could very well be my paradigm.

[ravichanana]

Reading a research many times is similarly helpful in understanding.

[ivocanevo]

So good. I'm going to listen to this three times.

[abhishekpratapnigam]

The first 2 minutes were just him coaching me why I shouldn't be running after tips of any kind

[briancordero]

I pretty much do those 3, but now I can do them consciously.

[felishiadarling]

This is great. Ty. I’m confused, tip number 3 was the same as number 2. Or did I hear you wrongly? 🤔

[scooble]

Or
Tell them what you are about to tell them.
Tell them what you intend to tell them.
Tell them what you just told them.

[saniainez]

Wait... I've watched this before, months ago, but I can't seem to recall where...

[GordonWLearn]

Alan, I dont like tips. But U just gave us tips. Its like breaching for climate change then jetting thr.

[Novastar.SaberCombat]

Excellent actors and storytellers are fairly important to society, but over the Epochs, their places in the world have become eroded, warped, or marginalized.

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[tbelsrq]

I’m not sure where 😂M.A.S.H. was filmed!