Let’s talk about Persuasion and Emotions

Rodney Denno
1 min readJun 15, 2021
Persuasion and emotions

Emotions, like fear, love, pity and anger, are really powerful motivators. And the whole point of persuasive speaking is to motivate your listeners to do something, to buy something or to act in a certain way.

A persuasive speech without emotions is just a bunch of claims and a call to action that your listeners can easily ignore.

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Rodney Denno

Curious and Analytical — by Nature. Father, Writer, Inventor, Speaker, Educator, YouTuber, Technologist, Entrepreneur, Executive — by Choice. rodneydenno.com