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Using a story is another way to engage the audience and help them visualize the situation or topic that you are discussing. The story can be a personal one about your life, or it could be an imagined one to give an example. Iyer uses both types in his talk. He speaks freely about his own life and then also offers examples of other similar people who come from mixed backgrounds and have lived in different places. Note that a story can be simple, but it should be somewhat descriptive with characters, a setting, and a plot. Iyers stories are not complicated, and sometimes they are only one sentence long. Yet he easily sets the scenes with simple, yet specific word choice. We can see him as a student in England, or at the dentist in America, or somewhere in Japan. His description of the half-Korean, half-German woman meeting the half-Thai, half-Scottish man is a scene we can imagine. And we can picture the young daughter of theirs writing about her life.

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