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Legendary baseball player Hack Wilson said, in life, you need many more things besides talent, things like

good advice and common sense.

In honor of our 150th Think Fast Talk Smart episode, we plan to spend some time today focusing

on good communication advice. I'm Matt Abrahams, and I teach strategic communication at Stanford

Graduate School of Business. Welcome to this celebratory Quick Thinks episode of Think

Think Fast, Talk Smart, the podcast. Today I am joined by my colleague, friend, and strategic communication

teaching partner, Shawan Jackson. Beyond being a lecturer, Shawan is an expert communicator

and the executive director of vocal justice. Vocal justice helps black

and brown students learn how to communicate authentically and persuasively about social justice.

Sjwan, thanks for joining me in a much smaller room than our usual classroom.

Thank you for having me. Matt has been such a pleasure teaching with you and congratulations

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