11:08:46 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	If you title is still TBD for your Working Circle, I'd recommending changing it soon!  You can change your titles at any time directly on the sign up page:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17ry5-PdWi2UjPUk_VAHZv9MtkMCc7Fuu0laltWsKcOU/edit#gid=0
11:22:20 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Matthew Winkler Video: What makes a hero? – We only watched the first two minutes in class.  Watch this to the end to see how the hero’s journey applies to your life:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhk4N9A0oCA
11:28:19 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Bankspeak: The Language of World Bank Reports, 1946–2012 – The Literary Lab report on how the World Bank reports are completely unreadable, due in no small part to the overuse of the word “and” to glue together contradicting statements:  https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet9.pdf
11:29:06 From Leanne Burnham To Everyone:
	b
11:29:06 From BK Titanji To Everyone:
	7%
11:29:07 From ken liu To Everyone:
	c
11:29:07 From Ava Reck Rognstad To Everyone:
	b
11:29:07 From Zeke Gleichgerrcht To Everyone:
	b
11:29:07 From Nicole Rendos To Everyone:
	B
11:29:09 From Laura Downey To Everyone:
	2.5
11:29:09 From Denise Fahey To Everyone:
	B
11:29:10 From Tarun Jain To Everyone:
	b
11:29:10 From Allison LoPilato To Everyone:
	b
11:29:11 From Liberty Strange To Everyone:
	C
11:29:15 From BK Titanji To Everyone:
	A
11:29:16 From David Parker To Everyone:
	c
11:29:18 From Maya Fayfman To Everyone:
	2 and a half
11:29:21 From Alexandre Cammarata-Mouchtouris To Everyone:
	A
11:30:00 From Ryan Smith, MS, PhD To Everyone:
	B
11:30:14 From ken liu To Everyone:
	E
11:30:19 From ken liu To Everyone:
	Just kidding
11:30:24 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a 7 year foundational study that took a quantitative analysis approach to the English language.  It found that the ideal percentage of Ands in a well edited document tends to converge around 2.5%. You can use this word frequency tool to find the number of Ands in your own document, then divide that by the total number of words to find your And Frequency. We consider an And Frequency of over 4% to be indicative of “deadly levels of boring.” The closer to 2.5% you are, the better:  https://www.browserling.com/tools/word-frequency
11:31:51 From ken liu To Everyone:
	How about when people speak? Is it also 2.5%
11:34:42 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	A spat over language erupts at the World Bank – The somewhat dismissive Economist article on the “conjunction dysfunction” about the Literary Lab’s report:  https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/05/29/a-spat-over-language-erupts-at-the-world-bank
11:36:37 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	The And Frequency is a very actionable thing you can do to start analyzing your own writing.  Highly recommend you give it a try!
11:40:29 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	The ABT 3 Step Model (aka the ABT Blue Card): http://storycirclestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ABT_3_steps.pdf
11:40:42 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Reminder:  Please participate in chat!
11:41:19 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	These ABT Builds are a great place for you to start practicing so that you don't come into your Working Circle cold.
11:41:35 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	First, start posting your taking on "what's this a story of?"
11:41:50 From Tarun Jain To Everyone:
	Tailoring care for patients
11:41:54 From Zeke Gleichgerrcht To Everyone:
	Improving quality of life
11:42:02 From Seyma Katrinli To Everyone:
	Better care for cystic fibrosis patients
11:42:04 From Maya Fayfman To Everyone:
	Mental health
11:42:09 From Denise Fahey To Everyone:
	Reacted to "Improving quality of..." with 👍
11:42:10 From Leanne Burnham To Everyone:
	Symptoms still exist
11:42:12 From Liberty Strange To Everyone:
	improving symptoms
11:42:26 From Ava Reck Rognstad To Everyone:
	tailoring care for cystic fibrosis patients
11:43:01 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	There's 2 ways you can answer the "story of" question.  The Ultimate goal (the big grand goal) and the Proximate goal (the specific step we're taking to get to the Ultimate goal).
11:43:23 From Mike Strauss To Everyone:
	Better care
11:43:24 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	For the ABTs, we're more interested in the Proximate Goal.  What specifically are you trying to do?
11:43:34 From Leanne Burnham To Everyone:
	Less symptoms
11:43:41 From Zeke Gleichgerrcht To Everyone:
	Improving care
11:43:46 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Identifying mechanisms
11:43:50 From Tarun Jain To Everyone:
	Identify mechanisms
11:43:50 From Denise Fahey To Everyone:
	better tailor care
11:43:56 From Mike Strauss To Everyone:
	tailor care
11:44:09 From David Parker To Everyone:
	Biological mechanism
11:44:25 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Point A:  We're not identifying mechanisms.  Point B:  We are identifying mechanisms.  
	That's my take.
11:44:46 From Liberty Strange To Everyone:
	understand mechanisms
11:45:31 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Good way to put it, Randy.  "What do we need to do right now?"
11:46:12 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	"Wants vs Needs" is the screenwriter way of saying "Ultimate goal vs Proximate goal."
11:46:57 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	We WANT better care.  We NEED to identify the mechanisms in order to get better care.
11:48:25 From Lisa Crozier To Everyone:
	How does the hero's journey translate into the ABT? Are you saying that the BUT is the crisis? The initial statement is the changed hero at the end?
11:48:31 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Three Forms of the ABT – It’s recommended you read this excerpt from Houston, We Have a Narrative and get an understanding of the cABT (Conversational ABT):  http://www.storycirclestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/THE-3-FORMS-OF-THE-ABT.pdf
11:51:16 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Lisa - Ordinary World of the Hero AND What's at Stake for the Hero BUT problem standing in the way of the Hero (crisis) THEREFORE the Hero has to do X.
11:51:56 From Mike Strauss To Everyone:
	There's a think we've improved, but it's not enough, therefore we need to do more.
11:51:57 From Allison LoPilato To Everyone:
	Do you recommend you actually write out an informational version, then a conversational version, and then make your keeper after you’ve done those 2 exercises ?
11:52:13 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Lisa - Hero can be replaced with a project, team, process, idea, etc., and you can customize it to your specific domain.
11:53:06 From Lisa Crozier To Everyone:
	Thank you Matt
11:55:05 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Allison - Great question!  I'd say your first draft is more whatever would be helpful to you, either aiming for a kABT or going all out for a big iABT.  We don't have a hard rule on it.
11:55:29 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	But yeah, for your second attempt, see fi you can get down to a cABT.
11:55:40 From BK Titanji To Everyone:
	Who benefits from surgery
11:55:41 From Seyma Katrinli To Everyone:
	Indemnify seizure outcome
11:55:51 From Maya Fayfman To Everyone:
	Tailoring treatment for seizure disorder
11:55:52 From Liberty Strange To Everyone:
	identify outcomes
11:56:36 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Replying to "But yeah, for your s..."
	
	*if you can.  (Man, so many typos today!)
12:00:21 From Mike Strauss To Everyone:
	Epil. surgery holds out the promise of freedom from seizure and if we could predict who would benefit from such surgery then...   But we are unable to predict this because...
12:00:34 From Zeke Gleichgerrcht To Everyone:
	Reacted to "Epil. surgery holds ..." with 👍
12:02:23 From David Parker To Everyone:
	bye