11:04:09 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Great, I love a challenge!
11:05:27 From Albertha Joseph-Alexander To Everyone:
	We need a bundle package of the books
11:10:13 From Albertha Joseph-Alexander To Everyone:
	The second example has a better balance of: concise and compelling
11:11:48 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	I've found that if you audience is Inner Circle, starting with the problem (Joe has died) is fine.  The Outer Circle audience needs more setup.  The difference between those two audiences is how much context they have on your subject.
11:12:48 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Replying to "I've found that if y..."
	
	*your audience is Inner Circle
11:14:20 From Albertha Joseph-Alexander To Everyone:
	Replying to "I've found that if y..."
	
	true
11:17:18 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	The AF and NI are two tools that you can start using now to check your own writing.  The AF is a measure of how well a piece of writing is edited.  The NI measures your narrative strength.
11:18:15 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	We consider an AF over 3 as boring.  An AF over 4 is "deadly levels of boring."
11:18:30 From Tarun Jain To Everyone:
	Reacted to "We consider an AF ov…" with 😂
11:19:03 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	A Narrative Index over 10 is adequate.  A Narrative Index under 10 we consider to be lame.
11:20:11 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	A sample size over 1000 words is best for these tools.  Under 1000 words, you should take the results with a big grain of salt.
11:25:26 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	For science papers, we've started adding in HOWEVER when calculating the NI.  We've found scientists sometimes greatly prefer HOWEVER to BUT.  But in broad publications, like the NYT or Time magazine, they barely ever use the word HOWEVER.
11:26:15 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Word frequency tool – copy your text into this tool to quickly find the number of Buts and Ands to help you in calculating your And Frequency and Narrative Index - https://www.browserling.com/tools/word-frequency
11:27:32 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	A NI over 30 is extraordinarily high.
11:28:57 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	The Narrative Index – Randy’s blog post on the Narrative Index for those of you who want a deeper dive. - http://www.scienceneedsstory.com/blog/the-narrative-index/
11:29:42 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	COVID Leadership: Trump vs Cuomo - Randy's medpage article:  https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/healthpolicy/86474
11:30:36 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Here's the AF & NI ratings slide:  http://storycirclestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/and-frequency-and-narrative-index-scores.png
11:31:36 From Allison LoPilato To Everyone:
	Do you see gender differences in these metrics across writers/speakers?
11:35:24 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Allison - we haven't taken a look at the metrics for gender differences due to time constraints.  But one of our upcoming guest speakers did write anecdotally about how some women have difficulty with the BUT because "they generally are perceived much more negatively using the same approaches as male counterparts in politics or science."  You can read her post here:  http://www.storycirclestraining.com/SCForums/topic/dianna-padilla-session-2-8-the-abt-in-medicine/
11:35:42 From Allison LoPilato To Everyone:
	Reacted to "Allison - we haven't..." with 👍🏻
11:37:22 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Unfortunately, even when I added in HOWEVER, it didn't change these scores much...
11:40:25 From Mike Strauss To Everyone:
	improve gait function
11:40:58 From Albertha Joseph-Alexander To Everyone:
	I am seeing minimize foot injury?
11:41:09 From Mike Strauss To Everyone:
	All, like Matt said, try to answer Randy's questions in the chat.
11:41:37 From M. Ryan Smith MSc; PhD (he/him) To Everyone:
	Improving gait, 
	we need a probe to evaluate problems ab and c
11:41:39 From Mike Strauss To Everyone:
	Albertha, that's an outcome of improving gait function
11:42:10 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Ultimate goal:  Improve gait function.  Proximate goal:  Understand interrelationships  .
11:42:13 From Albertha Joseph-Alexander To Everyone:
	Replying to "Albertha, that's an ..."
	
	Thanks
11:43:01 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	It's often helpful to take your proximate goal (i.e. need) and frame it as an IF/THEN statement in the Blue material to help set the stakes.  IF we better understood interrelationships THEN that would get us...
11:43:59 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	An IF/THEN helps give the audience context early as to why what you're doing is important.
11:44:41 From Mike Strauss To Everyone:
	we could develop training mechanisms to reduce injury risk.
11:45:54 From Albertha Joseph-Alexander To Everyone:
	Also the opening is more like 'heaven'
11:46:34 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	Yeah, whenever I get lost on what the main narrative point is for a first draft ABT, I look at the last few words and usually find it there.  Then it's just a matter of moving it to the front of the ABT and providing context for how important it is.
11:50:38 From Mike Strauss To Everyone:
	We know what we need, but we don't have it, therefore we'll get it.
11:58:13 From Albertha Joseph-Alexander To Everyone:
	A story of improving care
11:58:22 From Albertha Joseph-Alexander To Everyone:
	A story of identifying
11:58:33 From Albertha Joseph-Alexander To Everyone:
	novel echanisms
12:00:27 From Matthew David To Everyone:
	For an Inner Circle audience, this IF/THEN is unnecessary - they already get it.  For the Outer Circle, this is needed context.
12:00:54 From Tarun Jain To Everyone:
	Thanks!!
12:00:57 From David Parker To Everyone:
	Thank you!
12:01:04 From Ava Reck Rognstad To Everyone:
	Thank you!