Get Them Hooked: how to make any content captivating

1. Get Them Hooked: Welcome to your ultimate guide to transforming any lecture presentation or whatever you need into a captivating experience. Hi, I'm Adi, a professional teacher and content creator. Mi forte, taking any topic and making it fascinating for those who are listening. And I'm here to help you do the same. Whether you're a teacher, a freelancer, want to succeed in your job or just someone who wants to tell a better story, this is designed just for you. We start by discovering what truly interests you because passion is contagious. When you're excited, your audience will be too. Then we'll dive into the main elements that capture people's attention, the core arcs of storytelling that make any content compelling. In each video, I'll show you practical techniques to implement these arcs into whatever you do, including examples step by step. Get ready to transform your communication skills and leave a lasting impression every time you speak. Continue watching and join me on this exciting journey. Let's make everything interesting together. 2. Find What is Interesting to You: Rule number one and the most important rule you will need. Don't teach or lecture on things you don't find interesting. If it's something you enjoy, the people who will listen to you will enjoy too. Go through your material and think what you find intriguing about what you're going to tell? What not to think about. Don't think why it's financially beneficial. Don't think why it's important. Don't think about all the information you want to give. All of these things will come, but later. If you want to make your material interesting, for this step, just think why you like it. What's interesting to you about it. It could be anything. It could be the way the code is written? It could be the way the characters are connected with one another? It could be a love story that you found, and you can find what's interesting in anything. Think what you like about it. Is it the way one step leads to another? Is it the way it seems complicated at first and then becomes clear? Is it the way you can tell the result from the beginning? Is there an interesting story in it? Once you find your own interest, you can base your material around that interest. You may be tempted to use GPT or other similar AI websites to answer this one. I like GPT, and we'll use it later in the course. But at this stage, try not to because we're not trying to find why your subject is interesting in general. We're trying to find why you specifically like what you're teaching. Why is it important? Because once you know what you find in it, then this is the way to transfer it to others. You will be more enthusiastic, you will connect to it better. You'll be a better presenter, and it will be easier for you to make it interesting also to others. 3. Break Down What’s interesting to You: Break down what's interesting to you. Now we're going to talk about how to do that. How do you find out what's interesting to you? Keep in mind that even if you already can tell and spell it, write it down. So it will be clear in front of your eyes when you start working. Sometimes, you do something that you like and can't pinpoint exactly why you like it, what you find interesting about it? Or you're given an assignment that you're not really sure what's interesting in it at all. This is the time to make it more practical. So let's break it down now. How exactly do we find that out? I'll give you a few options, which you can truth w. Let's start with Scenario one where you chose the topic and you know you like it, but can't put it into words just yet. There are a few things you can do. Why? Take a paper and brainstorm. It's better to do it physically because it's something that really connects to your mind. But you can also do it digitally. It's totally fine. Right to the top, why do I find it whatever you do interesting? Then write down everything that comes to mind. No judgment, just write everything. If you think things like, this is not really interesting, or this is ridiculous, or this is not a good idea. Don't let it stop you. Your goal is to get what's in your mind and put it into words. The idea is to write everything without thinking and stopping yourself. And this way, to get to sought that were at the back of your mind, and you weren't even aware of maybe. Think from write until you feel you really have nothing more. When you look at what you wrote afterward, you will see your answer to the question inwards. You may need to devote a little bit more time to write it into a clear sentence or make more sense of what you wrote. And this is totally fine because it's writing without judgment, but it will help you find your answer to what interests you. Too. You can use a mid map, which is a form of brainstorming, but a more graphing and a more organized one. This is how it looks like. Begin by placing the question at the center of the page, whether physical or digital. From there, branch out with main categories and then from the categories into subcategories. Each idea you have, you can branch out to subcategory, just like this. You can use words, short phrases, and even images. You can also employ colors and visual elements as you like. You can use lines and arrows to establish relationships between different ideas. This is for people who like something more graphy and more organized because here you take your ideas, and then from your ideas, you go to make it more detailed and more and more specific. You can choose between doing it digitally yourself using mind mapping apps. There are quite a few, and of course, take a piece of paper and be gray. Three. You can take a long term approach. Make some sort of a journal, digital, or physical and write every day. In any way you like, brainstorm, min M, paragraphs, diary, et cetera. This way, you will have a deeper process of thinking about what you do. It can be a good idea when you do something that's a long term project or something that's very meaningful to you. Or just if you prefer personally to do it that way. Finish when you feel you're done. There is no specific time limit to that. And if you want a deeper process of thinking, because then you write and then you think about it, and you write again, you can do that as well. It doesn't have to be at one. Now, what do you do if you yourself are not sure what's interesting in what you're going to do. So I have two suggestions for you. One, next in this class, I'll give you the main things people find interesting. Listen to this class until the end before you start working and you will find ideas to explore and find your own. To do some research. If it's something that you personally don't find interest in, it's probably not something that you e. So there's probably a lot more about it that you don't know yet. Read about the subject. Find more information about it until you find your interest point. Of course, listen to what I teach next. It will help you think what to look for. It doesn't have to be directly in the assignment or the material you already have. Because as you will see, you can also add things to what you do to make it more interesting. Look beyond the material you already have. Then, of course, you can take the other steps, the brainstorming, the mind mapping to further help you find out what you find interesting, if you like. Don't forget to put everything in writing. When it's only in your mind, things are less clear and and become messy. Even if you already know dy and especially if you still need to find out. There are different ways to find out what interests you. It takes some effort, but it will make not only your audience like what you do better. It will also help you enjoy. It's well worth your time. 4. What do People Find Interesting?: What do people find interesting? Now, you know what you find interesting. This is the first step, but, of course, not enough to make other people interested. There are some main themes that people like that always work. You can find these themes in books, songs, plays, movies. I'm sure you'll find many examples as you hear them. You'll hear all of them next. Then we'll have two things. The first is what we did just now, and it will be what you bring from yourself from your own mind and interest. The second, which we'll do next is concepts and ideas that work for centuries. Listen to all of this, think of your interest and see which one of these concepts can fit with what you do. 5. People's Stories: People's stories. Remember Thomas Edison, of course, you do. Ddison was an inventor. But the fact that we remember his name so well is not coincidental. It's because he knew back in the 19th century that for people to believe in his products and consume them, they need to feel a connection to a person to the inventor. He made sure to market everything under his name. This is the basis of any book, news story or campaign. People connect to characters. If you look at it, you will notice that many news stories or articles start with one person, the author, or someone else, and then move on to the biggest picture through the personal story. People want someone to identify with, to connect to. They like stories that are connected to the human experience. Start what you do with a main character, the audience will get to know, introduce this person, and then move on to the bigger picture through that. If possible, move on with that character. The audience will connect to the person and will be more interested in their story, and through that to what you have to say. Research the topic and look for an interesting human angle. Find the story that involved a certain person, and from that, move on to the bigger picture. If you think what you teach is technical, mechanical, find who develop the method of solving this type of problem. Read about the person, maybe you will find something interesting in their life story. Even better, maybe you'll find something interesting in the way they develop the method. Maybe there was some argument. Maybe it was a woman whose credit got stolen. Maybe they found it by mistake. Whatever you do, someone did it, founded it, used it, whatever. Of course, you can't always find a good personal story. Sometimes you will have better options, and I will talk about them later on. But if you find something that's something that is great to catch the audience's attention and get them interested. Now, I'll give you some examples of how to use a personal story. Some real examples. Example number one. Grace Hopper was a groundbreaking computer scientist, mathematician, and US Navy admiral. Born in 1906 in New York City, she was a curious girl. She gave her PhD in mathematics at the age of 27, joined the Navy during World War two, and then became a computer scientist. The computer programming language, Cob that was revolutionary is based on her research, and is still in use today. If you lecture or teach Cobo or something related to it, you can start with Hopper's story with more detail and research, of course, and then move to the computer programming part. You can also add information if you find any about the process of development, maybe there will be something there that relates to your material. The audience will feel connected to Grace Hopper and through her story to the computer language. For the second example, I'll use something more familiar, so you can get a good idea of how to do it. Say you're giving a lecture about the Beatles or pop rock music, et cetera. A good idea would be to start with the personal stories. Something like John Lennon was 4-years-old when his mother gave him a way to her childless sister. His father was absent by then. His aunt Mimi and Uncle George raised him lovingly. But when Little John developed interest in music, Mimi told him that he would never make a living out of his guitar. As we all know, he changed popular music forever. Then you can start to talk about how he formed the Beatles or move on to Marv life story or to the childhood stories of the other three members of the band, et cetera You can also start with a story involving the music itself. For instance, did you know that one of the most popular songs in music history was composed in a dream Then you can ask the audience to guess which one. It will gain more interest, and they will like guessing, maybe they will know, and then you continue. Paul McCartney dreamed the entire music of yesterday while he was asleep. When he woke up, he immediately ran to the piano and played it, so he won't forget it. It took him a month to come out with it. As he was too scared, it was a song he heard somewhere else. As he didn't have lyrics yet, he called the song scrambled eggs. From there, you can teach about the chords or the lyrics or more of the history of the band or the music or anything else you can relate to it. Finally, you can also use the one person you know best yourself. If it's something that you have a personal connection to, if it's a project you did, something you research, or anything like that, make yourself the character. Give inside information, tell about your experiences, funny anecdotes. If you feel comfortable doing that, that is a sure way to get your audience interested and connected. I use this example so you'll get a better idea how you can use a personal story, whatever you teach, and the different options you can have. There are many ways and subjects in which you can use personal stories. 6. Relationships and Love Stories: Relationships and love stories. Relationships are in a league of their own within the human stories. People are interested in relationships. Love songs, reality shows, the royal family. It's all about relationships. If you find the love story connected to your subject, that's amazing. Look for the scientists who fell in love while discovering what you're going to talk about. Look for the personal relationships in the lives of people you talk about to find something that will catch your audience. Were they marry, divorced, to who? Maybe there's something there to talk about. If you don't talk about certain people, but concepts and ideas, maybe you can find the story of people who used it as an example. Think broadly, where you can find it. No matter what you talk about, find the story behind its creation or discovery. Maybe you will find something there. How can you use a love story? You can use it to start your lecture course or article. Whatever you're doing, use it to catch attention and make them intrigued. Find pockets in the middle to mention it again if you can connect it. Like, remember the couple that fell in love, they worked together again. Mention it in the middle as an interesting break. Works great if it's something heavier and demanding, and then you have something lighter and a feel good start. Tell it as a continuing story that will get the listeners or readers hooked. If they lose focus by getting back to the story, they can gain it again. Don't leave it to the end. You want people to be connected throughout. You can make a nice closure at the end, which will be a good end. Be creative. These are just examples. Now, I'll give you two examples of how to use love stories to get the audiences interested. Here's the first one. Two of the most prominent researchers of X rays were Jerome and Isabela Carl. They met students when assigned to work together and at first didn't like each other and wouldn't talk to each other. They ended up married two years later, both becoming important and influential scientists working both together and individually. Jerome even won the nobel prize for discovery in the field of x rays. I hope I did justice with this short description as a non scientist in a class that's not about science. So if you're talking about x rays, for example, or if you're talking about something that's related to their discoveries, you can use this story. You can find quotes from them, and you can start with something like at first, he didn't notice her, and she didn't want to talk to him. Imagine what would have happened if none of them broke the silence. This is how you can get attention. Start with the beginning of how they met, and then slowly as you teach the material, add more and more information that also includes what they discovered. Instead of talking just about x rays, talk about the scientists and their love story and how it played a role in x ray research. This is, of course, just an example of how you can use a love story, even if you talk about science. Find something that fits what you do. Another example from the field of art. If you talk about the impressionist movement, and the painter Claude Monet, who was a part of it, talk about his love story with his wife, Kamie Dunson. They met when she was 18 and he was 25. When she worked as a model for painters. They fell in love, but had to face financial hardships. The love exceeded all hardship. They had two sons and stayed together until she died at a young age of 32. See what they did here. I read that they were poor and told it as a story about love that overcame struggles. You can start with the story, have the audience get to know them. Then you can teach about impressionism with paintings of Kami. The audience will be much more interested in the paintings and the art as they relate more to the characters. Now to GPT. You can use GPT and other AI platforms to find relevant stories. That can be very helpful. Make sure though, as you talk about real events and real people to do more research and verify the information. Just for this class, I looked for examples using GPT. I asked GPT for examples of love stories and science and art. And some of them were historically correct, but some of the stories Cha GPT gave me used real people but false information about them. Use it for ideas, but make sure you verify. It's also a good idea to add more information on your own from other sources. So take these examples and see what you can do. 7. Mystery: Mystery. This is especially useful if you can't find an interesting human or love story, which of course, can't always be found. Sometimes there is a human story, but you're not sure how to make it interesting. Sometimes you can't find a human story at all, or sometimes there is, but you're not interested in it. Remember, don't do anything that you yourself don't like to talk about. Whether you want a human story and can find it or just want to do anything else. This is where mystery comes in. People love mysteries. It's all the true crime podcasts and TV shows that are super popular. It's Hitchcock. It's Agatha Christie, it's Sherlock Holmes. Everything is more interesting where there's suspense when there's something not known that we want to find out, when we're waiting for something to happen. How can you do that? It's in the way you place your information and how you deliver it. Instead of just saying what you know, do it gradually. Don't tell everything at the beginning. Start with a simple story effect or you can start with a question like Did you know that if you do x, y will happen? Do you know how we get from x to y? Find an interesting fact to ask. How did it happen or how did they figure it out? Or just say something that is hard to figure out, something that happened one day and don't tell how it happened or what it means? Then don't answer all at once. Give bits of information as you go one by one. Have a plotwist. The first question is solved, but then there's another problem. Give different answers, let the audience figure out for themselves and think thriller movies or books that you like. That's the idea. Another option is begin your lecture with a real life unexplained mystery. Something like the Bermuda triangle or the placebo effect, depending on what you do. Present the known facts, then talk about your content and then demonstrate it with possible solutions to the mystery. You can also challenge the audience to come up with their own explanations based on the method. Option number three, you can turn it into a game of clue hand. Transform your lecture into a detective style investigation. Present a problem or a series of clues related to your content, then slowly reveal the details and solve it with the audience, or let the audience solve it. This can be used for topics like archaeological discoveries or historical mysteries, for example. Just make it into a game of redos. Mine magic tricks. If you're doing something in mass, for instance, you can introduce mas based magic tricks or illusions that seem like magic, but tological explanations rooted in mathematical concept. Make it look like magic then solve it. By biographies and inspirations, Shed light on the mysterious lives of people you're talking about. This can be used in whatever you do, authors of books, painters, scientists, researchers, anything. Try to see if you can find something mysterious, or maybe they lead the enigmatic or secretive lives. Start with the question, what happened after their discovery? How does the girl he met change his life, et cetera, or start with a story that you don't know where it leads. Then slowly solve it as you teach. These are a few examples of how you can create mystery depending on what you do. Not every some of it is better for some topics, some of it for others, so really depends on what you do. The idea is one. Don't give it all away at one go. Don't tell it all at the beginning. T. Start with an interesting question or an interesting fact like a mystery that needs to be solved, T tele bits throughout until the mystery is s. Four plant clues in the middle to keep your audience guessing and listening. Here's an example of how you can do it. I'll go with using the John Lennon example because everyone knows the story and him. It will be easier for you to understand how you can turn what you teach into a mystery. I use a real life story for this example, but you can use the way to create mystery in anything else you do. Say you want to give a lecture about John Lennon. You can start the story saying something like. The man lying on the front of his apartment building could barely speak. He just realized he was shot before collapsing with his face down on the ground. He was conscious, alive and badly wounded. This was the day that ended one of the most influential eras in music history. Or maybe it was six years prior when the Band the Beatles broke up. The man with his face on the ground was John Lennon. Then you can start with your lecture about John Lennon. I talked about his early childhood earlier in this class, something like that to start with his life story. You made an intriguing mystery at the beginning. You don't solve it, you wait with it. People don't know what's going to happen next. The mystery remains. Give you your lecture and end it with a closure. If you tell about John no's life, so you end it with the end of his life, telling the end of the story with all the details. For example, on the morning of December 8, 1980, John Lennon came out of a cab at the entrance of his building in New York City. His killer, Mark Chapman, a 25-year-old young man, had already waited for him at the entrance. When Lennon stepped into the building, he shot in. And so on and so forth, continue with the story, and this is how you solve the mystery. You can also add bits of Mark Chapman's story throughout the lecture to keep them intrigued or details related to the murder that will come to a closure at the end to create curiosity and suspense. Of course, this is a well known story. This is just an example. You can do this in things that are less known and people will be curious to know who the man is and what happened and who killed him. You can also use this for well known stories. Plant some clues, and people will be curious guessing who this is. Like I did here, I didn't give all the details like where he lived or the date. People will listen and they will be like, I know, I think this is John Lennon, but I'm not sure and they will like guessing and solving this do. Make sure to not reveal everything at once. Make it interesting. Of course, this is just an example to give you an idea. Be creative, have fun with it. For this purpose, GPT will be great. It can be challenging to figure out a way to turn your material into a mystery. GPT is perfect for this kind of assistance. You have the knowledge and GPT will find the way to make it a mystery and save you many hours of thinking and writing. Mystery is something that is always fun to listen to and can also be a lot of fun figuring out how to create it. 8. Conflict: Conflict. This is the basis of every story. Every good story needs conflict. Conflict passes up lectures and makes them way more interesting. Conflict means when something goes wrong and then it gets solved. When there's a clash of ideas or different perspectives, or if there's a problem to get over, it's like a good debate that keeps you thinking. It gets your brain working and makes you pay more attention. It's like a mini story within the lecture. You're eager to find out how the conflict gets resolved. It also helps the audience remember the content better. Conflicts in lectures are like the interesting twist in a movie that keeps you hooked. The conflict is when something happens, not according to plan. Here are some ways to add conflict to your content. One. Scientific controversies or conflicting ideas. Including scientific controversies or conflicting ideas gets people thinking and engaged. When there are different viewpoints, it's like a puzzle to solve, which keeps the audience curious and interested. It makes the lecture more like a story with a plot, and that keeps people paying attention and remembering the information better. In simple terms, it adds excitement and makes the lecture more fun to listen to. It's also a good way to teach your content in an interesting way. You explain the different viewpoints and where they clashed and what happened in the end. If you have something like that in your material, you can make it what your content revolves around. Two, personal challenges. That also connects to the personal story theme. Incorporating personal challenges can make it interesting because it connects with people on a deeper level. Sharing real life obstacles or dilemmas that you or another person faced or discussing relatable challenges allows the audience to engage emotionally and emphasize. In a nutshell, personal challenges make the lecture more engaging and memorable because they make it more about people and their experiences. If there's something meaningful that happened in someone's life, you can use it. Maybe they fell ill but continued working, maybe they had financial struggles that kept them from achieving or they eventually achieved issues in the family, anything that's on the personal level. Three, audience reception. Many times you can find a story relating to the struggle of reception. It can be scientific method that wasn't accepted. No one wanted to publish, or the scientists didn't get a position in the university. It can be someone famous that one time did or said something that made the public and the media upset. It can be a book or other artwork that was ridiculed when it first came out, or just didn't get the success that was expected and later came. Let me think else of that sort really in any topic. Tell what you want to teach, then tell the struggle of acceptance, and how it was resolved if it was. It's a great way to say what everyone to say and add conflict for interest. Floor, the method doesn't work, and then it does. This one also relates to the mystery theme. Someone invents something or figures out something. Medicine to a disease that affects millions, it could be a solution to a mathematical problem that no one figure out for years. It could be a way to help people in need really a variety of things. The person is happy and everything seems perfect. And then suddenly a problem. It doesn't work. All of the hopes collapse in front of our eyes. Then our hero doesn't give up, figures out another way to do it until they end up winning. Again, I'm sure you've seen many movies and read many books with that plot. Now, we'll give you two examples. Here's the first. Use again a well known example. So I want to teach about electricity about alternating current, and how it works. Instead of starting with the explanation about the current, I'll start with telling about Eddison and Tesla. Both developed different types of electric currents. Edison the direct current and Tesla the alternating current. Tesla sold his invention to industrialist George Westinghouse, who in turn wanted the alternating current to be the one used worldwide. Eddison, of course, wanted the direct current to be the one in Mass ew. After this introduction, I can start explaining about the technical part, which is the main thing of what I want to talk about. Explain about the different chords. I can ask the audience which one they think is better and discuss the pros and cons of each. I can ask which one they think one, which will also be an opportunity to talk about the technical part that I want to teach and will also create a bit of competition. Of course, in this one, everyone knows, but you can do it if you talk about things that not everyone else. Then I can add more details about the war of corn, like when Edison promoted the electric chair to show how unsafe wasting House's current was or break down the myth that Edison electrified an elephant. He didn't. All of these juicy details create interest. I can also explain why did Edison say that the alternating current wasn't safe, where he was safer, et cetera. So I'll use the story to actually teach. The audience will be invested in the story and we'll learn the content through it. Another example is how you can use audience reception struggle. Say you want to teach about the impressionist art. Pick an artist. Introduce the artists with their personal story. As said before here in this class, people relate to personal stories. It's best to pick just one person to help them relate. Of course, you don't have to. Then talk about the art, which is your main purpose. After you do and the audience appreciates the art, tell the story of the failure, the struggle. The art wasn't accepted. You can have a learning opportunity here. Ask the audience why they think it wasn't accepted. Then you discuss the concepts and how it works. It doesn't have to be a huge story of failure. Even if the artist wasn't accepted to present in the first gallery he tried, you can make it the story of things don't work out at first. You can discuss the artistic concepts you learned or scientific or anything else you talk about to answer this question, and this way, you teach the content with an interesting plot. Of course, you say at the end how it was solved, how successful was won. It's another opportunity to discuss the art and its qualities. As for GPT, as always be careful when using it for information. Not only is it not up to date, its information is not always accurate. What it can be good for is two things. The first is ideas, Ask for an example of an impressionist painter who struggled before success or if there was a certain conflict over the currents, or something more general. A depending on what you do and need. Then go and verify the information. Do your research with more credible sources. The other way you use GPT is to help you make the story. Ask GPT to write for you what you need, and then work with. So there are a lot of different ways to add conflict and make what you talk about interesting. It takes a little bit of exploring and thinking and you'll be able to find the one that fits you. 9. Relatable Examples: Relatable examples. If you can't find any real story or just don't want to, you can still make people connect through examples from life they'll relate to. Here are some examples for things you can use as relatable example. One. Think of familiar situations that we all experience and integrate them. All these things that start with, have you ever? For example, ask your audience, have you ever been to the supermarket and couldn't find what you were looking for or have you ever gone shopping with the budget and then saw this one thing that was over your budget and you really wanted, or have you ever been stressed at the end of the day and couldn't find a way to relax and fall asleep? If you have something that can relate to these challenges, this is a great way to connect to your audience and make them interested. Like, if we take the example of the currents that we use in the previous lesson, can say how you want to continue to work at night, and then you can use the light bulb for lights and then connect it to electricity, a simple example. It doesn't have to be an overall solution. It could be just a starter to get the audience interested and connected. Like a calculation, you're going to teach them that could assist also with that challenge. For example, if you ask them ever had an issue with their budget and you want to teach something mathematical, you can teach how this mathematical equation can help them with that. You can ask them about how the sunset is so beautiful and then connected to an artwork that you're going to teach about. It can be even smaller everyday life. Examples people will identify with. You can show them a picture or ask them questions. You can really use any real life, challenge, annoyance, anything that people can relate to. It doesn't have to be big. Like earphone cords that are tangled together. As that ever happened to them, and everyone will agree how annoying it is and relate or waking up in the middle of the night, trying not to wake the rest of the family up, small thing that will make people smile and relate to what you're doing. So look at what you have to say or to teach and try to find the small thing. Solutions to everyday nonces and challenges. Maybe you can say this whole method or this whole machine was invented as the solution for this problem, et cetera. You can use it in the beginning and you can use it throughout. You can also start with the personal story of an inventor and the thing that they try to fix and then go from there. So if you don't want to do something that you shape your entire lecture or class or whatever around, you can still use these small examples to make people relate, connect and interested. 10. Popular Culture References: Popular culture references. If you really can't find anything that you can make more personal, this could be a good idea that fits any presentation or lecture. Even if you do use one of the previous examples, you can still add popular culture references for more interest and spice. By putting in popular culture references, it can help the audience visualize and understand the concept better. It's also something familiar. It's something that will make you smile more lighthearted, and people like it. Here are some examples of how you can add popular culture references. One. Discuss the concept of virtual reality and simulation with examples from the movie matrix. You can use the famous line. There is no spoon to illustrate the idea of questioning the nature of reality and the role of computers in shaping our perception. Two, if you're doing something relating to computers, use characters like Sheldon Cooper to exemplify the stereotypical genius computer scientist and bring up humerous situations or dialogues from the show to lighten the atmosphere. Three. For engineering, you can discuss the engineering marvel of the Eiffel Tower in Paris France and its significance in architectural and structural engineering. Mention its iconic design and the innovative techniques used during its construction. Or talk about Jurassic Park and the engineering challenges involved in creating a safe environment for genetically engineered dinosaurs. Four. For math, discuss the algorithms used by music streaming platforms like Spotify to create personalized playlist and recommendations for users, or discuss the use of sampling in contemporary music production, where artists incorporate portions of existing songs into their own compositions. These are just examples to get your head started with your own ideas. Of course, you can use AI. I use GPT to help me find these examples. This is how you can do it as well. This is a perfect opportunity to ask AI for examples of how to incorporate cultural references into what you do. You can use it as a starter in the beginning just to get the audience listening and to create a good atmosphere. But you can also use it throughout to give example, just incorporate it in whatever you do, and it will make your lecture or presentation or whatever you do more lighthearted, more humorous, and more fun. 11. Class Project: Class project. Now that you've learned various techniques to make your lectures or presentations interesting, it's time to apply these strategies with your own class project. Your task is to create an outline for a lecture or presentation or whatever it is that you do. This class project is about an outline. You don't need to have everything ready, but it's about creating the basis of what you'll work on. So write it all down. First, write down what your lecture or presentation is about. Write the main goal of it and the point you'd like to cover your content before you decide how to make it interesting. The rest is just there to serve your main content. Then write what you find interesting about it as you learned at the beginning of this class. Explain why you find this particular thing interesting. Next, plain how to combine the two. First, write which of the examples in the course you chose as the plot of your story, people's stories, mystery, et cetera. Then do your research and write down, what is the main plot you found and chose, which love story, or what kind of conflict, et cetera. The real one, after you already researched and decided. Finally, plan how you'll do it. A, Plan the opening of your content, how you'll start grabbing the audience as interest. How you'll start your story, your lecture, your presentation. B. Plan how you will combine it with the content. Write down the main points, the main plot of your presentation or lecture, and how the interesting story you decided on will serve your content. Make a plan from beginning through the middle and to the end, how your content will be taught together with the interesting story. It's a class project with a lot of creative thinking, a lot of planning, a lot of choices that you make. It's not a lot to write, but it is some creative work, research, and decision making. Make sure you upload your project. I will give you my professional feedback if you do, and I really look forward to seeing your work. So I'd be happy to see you upload it. If you have any questions at all, please write them down on the discussion tab, and I will answer them. So now, this is your time to get your creative juices going and have fun with their content. Good luck. 12. Summary and See You Later: You reached the final video. Congratulations. You've taken a significant step towards becoming a more engaging and compelling communicator. Let's take a moment to recap what we've learned throughout this course. We started by discovering what truly interests you, because passion is the foundation of captivating communication. When you're excited about your topic, your audience feels that energy. Next, we explore the main storytelling arcs, people's stories, relationships, and love stories, mystery, conflict, relatable examples, and popular culture references. These elements grab the audience's attention and you learn how to incorporate them into your presentations. In each lesson, we broke down practical techniques to make these arcs work for you, ensuring you can apply them into any lecture presentation or whatever it deals that you want to do. We also learned how to use AI and where you shouldn't use it. It's a great platform to help you get the best that's in you. But remember, your originality and authenticity is yours and yours alone. Remember, the key to making everything interesting is to stay genuine, be passionate, and use the storytelling techniques we've covered. Try it out and you'll see the difference in how your audience respond. I want to take a moment to thank you personally for being part of this class. This content is something that I've learned through years in the profession, and it's always such a pleasure when you come here and listen and learn. As we wrap up, I have a small favor to ask. If you've enjoyed this class and find it helpful, please take a moment to write a positive review. Your feedback not only helps others discover this course, but also supports me in creating more valuable content for you. Of course, I look forward to seeing your project and giving you feedback and we generally love to hear from you with any comments or questions. Also, don't forget to follow my teacher account for more tips, updates, and new courses. Let's stay connected and keep learning how to become better professional. Thank you for joining me on this journey. You've got the tools and the passion. Now, go out there and make everything interesting. See you next time. 13. Bonus Video: AI Chats: When I first met this class, AI was just becoming popular. I talked about how to use AI at the end of the videos with some general tips that fed the technology at the time. Now, as AI has both evolved and become more and more popular, it's time to give you a bonus video with some updates and new tips on how to use AI to make everything interesting. The more AI improves, the more you'll be able to use it to implement what you learned in this class. It can save you time as you'll be able to direct it in the right direction rather than have to think about everything yourself. AI can do many things, and there are many different apps and websites. In this video, I'll focus on the basic ones that almost everyone already knows, which are the AHA, like HGPT. I usually use Cloud and HGPT. They work best for me, but this is in no way affiliated. Unfortunately, for me, use whatever platforms that work best for you. One, get your mind going. AI doesn't have to be this tool that gives you all the answers better than you can. Actually, I think it can never do your job as good as the human mind when you're the professional in something. But one thing it can do, which can be super beneficial is to help you open your mind. Making everything interesting requires imagination and open thinking. Not every day we have that mood, not always we can think like that. AIchat are exactly there to make this thinking process easier. A is great to get your mind going. You don't need elaborate prompt. Just start with a chest. Sometimes you need just a small push to get you going. You can start with whatever comes to your mind, even expressing your frustration or lack of motivation. Here's an example of a short conversation I had with ChaGPT for this video. I wrote, I need to think of something creative and interesting for my presentation and I don't feel like it. Cha GPT said, I get that. Sometimes creativity just doesn't flow on the men want to brainstorm together, maybe we can find a fund angle that excites you. What's the topic of your presentation? Are you looking for a unique structure, engaging hook or a fresh way to deliver content? Let's make it easier for you. You see what you did there. It made me feel better. I encouraged me and gave me some questions that can help me start the working process. Then I answered. I took a course on field share, I wrote of accidentally, and I want to find a personal story for my presentation. ChaGPT said, nice, a person story can make your presentation more engaging and memorable. Let's find one that connects you to appearance with the skills the core. So I gave the ChaGPT director with what I learned, and I just saw what the chat will say. It gave me some examples which can you see correspond with the class. And then it asked, Does any of the spark something for you? If not, we can dig deeper. Now, see how that works. I just said whatever I wanted, giving a little bit of direction, and the chat knew how to encourage and get me going. Now, I look at the suggestion. The first one reminds me of what I learned in this class. In my case, I taught the course. This is just for the example. So I take this idea, which I like, and I already have knowledge of it. I'm not just out there. Do you have an example of a scientist that overcame personal difficulties? This is where water learning class comes in. It's not the first time I see. I have more knowledge, so I can use the checks ideas in a more accurate and professional way to accommodate my needs. You can see what the chat answers. You can go on with more questions and more brainstorming, but you don't have to. Remember that AI will never know what you do better than you. You can stop with the chat. You can start writing, you can start imagining, you can start designing your story and your presentation. You don't have to continue everything with the chat. You just use it whenever you need something to get your mind going or some importment. Then serve is your will just to start rolling. Sometimes you just need to chat with someone or get something to get going. The chat is there exactly for this in the beginning in the middle of the working process, or maybe if you're just stuck at the end. Two, ideas and examples. You can turn to AICts at any point to get ideas and examples while you work. The thing you will need to make everything interesting can be very specific, like an example for a painter with an interesting love story or a breakthrough in the field of biochemistry. It's really specific to what you exactly do at that point. AITts are great for this purpose. Let's see how we do it. In this case, I'll start the test with the question that I previously asked. I asked it before in the middle of the conversation, but I can also start the conversation with it. Do you have any example of a scientist that overcame personal difficulties? That answer T GPT gave me. Yes, one great example is Barbara McClintock, and then it elaborated more on who she was. At the end it asked, Does this resonate with you or do you want another example? Of course, I can continue and continue and make it more and more specific to my field or to my needs. Maybe I'll come up with new ideas as we go. Once I like the suggestion, I want to use it, I need to check if it's actually true. I'll tell you a story, a true one of how I learned it the highway. I want an example of scientists who are a romantic couple. I asked TGPT for example and it gave me an example that was exactly what I needed. I put it in my presentation. When I moved on to look for images and more information and look them up on Google, I saw that these scientists were real and worked together, but they were both men, one of them having a name that could be both male and female. I'm talking about something a few decades ago and there were never a couple. I had to delete all of it and start over. Another example, when I try to ask Claude what he knew about me just for fun, he told me that I'm a famous football player. I have many challenging needs, but I'm not a famous footballer. That's for sure. It's funny now, but be smart and learn from my experience because it wasn't funny to realize that I need to do everything over. Check all the information you get from AI. Continue with asking and being more specific until you get what you need. You will see that as you go, you will realize new things that you need that you may not have known it first. Three, wrap your presentation with the interesting story. You can use the chat to help you find a way to write your presentation in an interesting way to give you an outline that will combine your material with the interesting element that you found. I want to give an example because it's too much for a video, but now you probably get the idea. Give the chat the information of what you need and continue as you go with it. Something that I like to do and saves me a lot of time is to just copy and paste my entire text and then ask the question. Like, I need help combining the personal story with the material in an understandable way. Then I just copy and paste or upload depending on the abilities of the chat. It saves me the time and energy of rewriting all the material just for the chat. Four, use AI for whatever you already use it. Of course, you can use AIchet for any other function you already use it for. You can use it to write your text, to design your slide, whatever you normally do with AI. So I hope this video will help you in making your presentations even more interesting. If there's any more information or videos you'd like to see on this topic or maybe new horses altogether that you'd like to learn, please let me know. I do this all for you and your feedback is invaluable. Also, I know that sometimes you finish the class and you don't feel like leaving a review, but it's very helpful. And if you like what you learned, it's a great way to let me know. So good luck and see you again soon.