A profound lesson from Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, about how they choose the words they use.
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Transcript
Welcome back to “Irresistible Communication”.
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:Two minutes, one insight
on how to find better
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:words
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Michael: Apple famously stays away from much of the tech industry jargon.
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:For example until their last keynote
Apple had never used the term AI in any
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:of their keynotes, despite their products
heavily relying on AI technology, such as
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:for crush detection or text autocomplete.
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:In an interview after the
keynote CEO Tim Cook was asked
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:why Apple took this approach.
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:Here's Cook's answer.
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:We always talk about
the benefit to the user.
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:And so the benefit to the user is
crash detection and fall detection.
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:Not the technology behind the feature.
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:That statement should be painted on
the wall of every marketing department.
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:It's not about the technology
behind the features.
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:It's about what that technology
enables for the user.
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:Users don't care about
your technical brilliance.
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:They care about the brilliance of
your solution to their problem.
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:Your words should reflect that.
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:Technical jargon puts you and your
technical brilliance at the center.
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:It means you need to persuade the customer
heavily of why that's worth their money.
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:Apple doesn't have to persuade.
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:They choose to resonate instead.
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:They choose words that put the
user and the solutions to their
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:problems and desires at the center.
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:So, what does your
technical brilliance enable?
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:Keep lighting the path and
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