Now We're Talking

In Episode 055 of Now We're Talking we discuss how and why repetition works so effectively as a practice of persuasion.

In Episode 054 of Now We're Talking, we discuss the concept of salience and the agenda setting function of communicative acts. The central lesson is that attention is persuasion.

In Episode 053 of Now We're Talking, we discuss the appropriate structure of a persuasive, rational paragraph, and how to improve the effectiveness of our writing.

In Episode 052 of Now We're Talking, we discuss how we might make a persuasive assertion and the different effects of hyperbole and careful reasoning.

In Episode 051 of Now We're Talking we discuss the common practice of making assertions and why assertions are often not persuasive. We also review ways of making assertions more persuasive.

In Episode 050 of Now We're talking, we discuss one of the main axioms of communication: what's meant is never just what's said. When we are concerned with the human problem of meaning, we cannot just reduce language or messages to their denotative content.

In Episode 049 of Now We're Talking, we discuss micro-communication practices - the smallest, most detailed and habitual forms of communication that we employ - and why improving our micro-communication practices might help improve our effectiveness.

In Episode 048 of Now We're Talking we discuss pull tactics of persuasion like asking good questions and catalyzing effective conversations. Good leaders know how to do these two things.

In Episode 047 of Now We're Talking we discuss the differences between push tactics of persuasion and pull tactics and why leaders that use pull tactics are more successful than leaders that use push tactics.

In Episode 046 we talk about why fascism is persuasive and how it works rhetorically.