Five Stars by Carmine Gallo

I had Carmine Gallo on my writer's radar. As soonas this book 'Five stars' came along, I was happy to know 'The communication Secrets to get from Good to great'. I am a Toastmasters, hence my obvious interest in improving communication skills.
The author shares the formula of successful Hollywood movies and how the geniuses like steve Jobs, Da Vinci and Picasso have unlocked their best ideas. Communication skills is athe most valuable skill as perceived by the Master of Money, Warren Buffet. 
How great speeches by forefathers of the nation have been in simple words using less than high school grade level words. Hemingaway app.

The power of stories, Aristotle's persuation through ethos, pathos and logos, 
The analogy used by LinkedIn, the logline of Google, Indra Nooyi's Follow your Dream,
Beat the Greet, Dream Big

How 12 year old Alexa Cousin got her pet with Aristotl'e persuasion formula.

Using the knowledge learned in the book, on the book:
Setting - With AI and increasing computing abilities, human abilities like communication relegated to soft skills until now are very essential going forward. many professions now depend on persuasion. Using the techniques of many geniuses, astrophysicits, orators and creative artists we can crack the communication code.
Did the author sell his book with personal stories? There wasa reference to his books Talk like Ted and The Storyteller's Secret.

Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great

Recently I have been thinking of getting PMP certificate and wondering if the membership should come at the cost of Toastmasters, which i joined last year. The year before that I got curious about reading poetry aloud. I have veered from reading, creative writing to public speaking and leadership.

Personally for me, I inch to my goals by proximity, doing things which seem interesting then, not too clear about the future, but eventually it all falls in place. It’s the 1 degree rule but for veering off course, where you can change course totally without realizing 😊 I think I am getting the hang of contrarian thinking.

 

From a year or so ago, when I was feverishly following marketers in social media, I stashed away Carmine Gallo as a to read author. When I chanced upon the book, I knew it would be worth reading. Given that the book is about storytelling, emotions come into play when you are reading it. I was mindful of seeing how Gallo himself told the story of his book in the big picture.

“Five stars” by Carmine Gallo is about the importance of storytelling and communication skills in the face of AI. In that I came across Shonda Rhymes the year of saying yes, I have read of it before too but haven’t gone to the heart of it. At that point, another thing came to mind. Rejection therapy. A while ago I told a friend about rejection therapy from a Ted talk, where Jia Jiang shared What he learned from 100 days of rejection.

 

They are two things on the opposite side. Saying yes to everything even though you fear and trying everything even though you might hear only no. Changing your and other’s no to yes.

 

In the 5 stars book, there is a quote by DFW –

“In other words, a real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.”

 

which sums up the bulletpoints better of what is necessary to do anything good/great if you think in the opposite

Hardwork

Largesse

Strength

& Courage