Wednesday, May 13, 2026

WEDNESDAY — PERSPECTIVE & PRACTICE

“Humility is an indispensable teacher, enabling concentration to heighten gusto.”

— Marianne Moore

A generation before “executive presence” entered the vocabulary, Marianne Moore was arguing that a sentence is essentially a readout of the personality behind it. Persuasion, she suggested, is downstream of who you are, not what you say which means that the people you’re trying to move are reading you, not your slides. Humility, concentration, and gusto aren’t writing tactics; they’re the inner posture that makes anything you put into the world worth following. For more, Check out Marianne Moore on the Three Elements of Persuasive Writing.

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Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad