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The greatest communicators have unknowingly used a story pattern. They not only use anecdotes effectively, but their communication followed a persuasive story pattern of tension and release. That tension and release is created by contrasting [what is] with what could be as a structural device.

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Nancy Duarte
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
Speaker
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the United States of America
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