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Week 5 - This is an Outrage! The Use of Emotion to Create Content that Sticks

The scene often plays out as follows. I am in front of a class, talking about a topic that I feel deeply passionate about, which is why I am teaching it in the first place. I have spent a sizeable portion of my life to be in this position, to transmit what I consider important information to a class of young adults who I hope will take the baton and carry the information in their lives. And when that time to present comes, when I am in front of the class, and the students are showing zero interest whatsoever in the content, you really start to question your life decisions. The other question is, how to fix it?

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