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Quick Hits are 10-minute conversations designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to hear other people‘s thoughts on a variety of subjects. In February of 2021 I and the members of my mastermind group thought other people might enjoy listening in on some of the lively conversations we were having. But we realized that no one was going spend 90-minutes listening to us going on about anything and sometimes nothing. Instead, we decided to pick one topic and have a short conversation to share. I took the reigns because facilitating those types of conversations sounded like fun. Over the course of a few months it grew from just members of our mastermind group to four (sometimes three if schedules go sideways) people from various parts of the world and from ”short” to exactly 10-minutes. Thus was born ”Quick Hits” hosted by me, Dr Robyn. I hope to get caught up with posting them here on PodBean at some point. As of this writing, I have over 100 ”episodes.” If you‘d like to see the videos of these conversations, they are available on my YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/DrRobynQuickHits If you have a topic you‘d like to hear discussed, I encouraged you to use the contact page of my website: https://drrobynodegaard.com/ to let me know.
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Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
At first glance this seems like a straightforward answer. The truth is the truth. No more. No less. But that’s not the way any of us function in our day to day lives.
What kinds of details are okay to fudge or tweak for the sake of a clear story?
Michael Davis spends a lot of time helping people share their stories and he made the point that if you include every single detail for the sake of telling the “truth” you are going to lose your audience.
He talked instead about the “emotional truth” of a story.
Karen Loomis, who does branding and marketing (an area where there could be a strong temptation to stretch the truth) said that it’s one thing to exaggerate or make yourself look a little better if it doesn’t matter.
Her example was someone saying the are a good swimmer when they actually aren’t that great. In most cases, that doesn’t matter.
But – if that person was trying to get a job as a swim coach, suddenly that isn’t an embellishment. It’s a lie.
Dave Roberts agreed that how you tell a story might change and you might highlight or remember something differently based on your emotional state at the moment.
So where is the line? What types of things are just part of the human condition where you might hedge to save someone’s feelings? When does it become lying?
We would love to hear your thoughts in the comments because this is a WAY more complicated topic than we could do justice in ten minutes.
Connect with the panelists:
Karen Loomis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kloomis/
Dave Roberts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-roberts-56690513/
Michael Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldavisspeakingcpr/
Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/
Want a summary of the Quick Hits I post every week, plus the links to the LinkedIn pages of each of the panelist to show up in your in-box every week? Just let me know where to send it: https://drrobynodegaard.com/quick-hits-notifications/
#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on pertinent subjects. If you would like to join a conversation or have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me. https://www.DrRobynOdegaard.com
#dontlietome #lying #WhatisTruth
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