Does one of your stories seem to go on too long? If so, you’ll weaken your message – and you even risk losing people altogether.

Check this 90-second clip (from an 11-minute Q&A) by Vinh Giang with 3 tips for you:

Vinh’s 3 tips are:

• Focus on the peak action

• Focus on the peak emotion

• Focus on the lesson learnt

Over to you

If you need to shorten a story, try those out! (Would love to .)

Also check out

• The storytelling category on this blog

• How to nail your talk in the first 30 secs, by @KindraMHall [Video]

• Grab attention – 5 great opening lines for your presentation stories [Video]

• Start strong – 3 gripping ways to open your talk

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