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Telling Stories About the Strengths and Virtues of Others Will Empower Your Speech
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Praise has a place in our public conversation

A storyteller, friend, and fellow Substack author named David Sewell McCann of

How to Story
recently shared this economical and potent idea in a recent essay.

“Compliments are short and very potent stories.” David Sewell McCann

This got me thinking about many of the amazing writers that I f…

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