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The Bottom-Up Approach

You can work out the ideas from the bottom up by following a 3-step process.

1. List all the points you think you want to make.

2. Work out the relationships between them.

3. Draw conclusions. 

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The Top-Down Approach

Fill in the top box

1. What Subject are you discussing?

2. What Question are you answering in the reader's mind about the Subject"?

3 What is the Answer?

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The reasons why most people fail to write clearly

  1. Weaknesses of style, and it is notoriously difficult for a person who has completed the formal part of his education to change his writing style.
  2. Structure of the document: If a person's writing is un...

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The Need to State the Logic

All mental processes (e.g., thinking, remembering, and problem solving) apparently utilize this grouping and summarizing process, so that the information in a person's mind might be thought of as being organized into one giant conglomeration of related pyramids.

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Where Do You Start the Situation?

The key characteristic of all opening Situation sentences is that they anchor you in a specific time and place, and thus establish the base for a story to come. 

You begin writing the Situation by making a statement about the subject with wh...

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The Magical Number Seven

There is a limit to the number of ideas you can comprehend at any one time.

The mind cannot hold more than about seven items in its short-term memory at any one time. Some minds can hold as many as nine items, while others can hold only five...

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The Vertical Relationship

The vertical relationship serves marvelously to help capture the reader's attention. It permits you to set up a question/answer dialogue that will pull him with great interest through your reasoning.

What you put into each box in the pyranmi...

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What's a Complication?

Using the previously established truth about the subject as its starting point, the Complication goes on to tell what happened next in the story that inevitably leads to a Question.

  • Have a task to perform - Something stops us from perfo...

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An effective communicator and business analyst with an inquisitive mind, strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

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The Story Strategy Blueprint

It ensures that the needs and wants of your customer remain front and center as you develop products and services and make plans to bring those ideas to life. 

  • Step 1: Story: Think about who the customer is beyond the basic demographic information. Des...

THE ORIGIN STORY EXERCISE

  • Step 1: Reconnect to peak moments in the past.
  • Step 2: Write out the story in detail. 
  • Step 3: Repeat the process for ages five to twenty-five
  • Step 4: Write the values that emerged from those moments.
  • Step 5: Define your values.

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