To be an effective communicator, you should stop telling anecdotes and start telling stories.

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An intelligent person is open-minded, an outside-the-box thinker, an effective communicator, is prudent, self-critical, consistent, and so on.

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Different ones apply more powerfully at different times, and you can practice one and then another as you progress to become a more effective communicator.

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