Eminem on Improving your Ability to Influence Others

Aug. 22, 2016 - PRLog -- When trying to make a convincing argument, how would you describe your style? I'm not referring to your level of assertiveness or ability to find common ground; today, I'm more interested in how long can you speak? I use to aim for brevity, but maybe we should aspire to be more like Eminem.

Eminem has a talent that directly leads to more effective persuasion—he talks… a lot. A 2015 study by Musixmatch found that after analyzing the 100 densest songs of the 99 bestselling artists of all time, Eminem used an unparalleled 8,818 unique words throughout his catalog. This study took into account vocabulary size (the number of unique words), lyrical density (the total number of words used), and "new word interval" (the number of words after which a new word is used). The remaining top five artists included Jay Z with 6,899 words, Tupac with 6,569, Kanye West with 5,069, and Bob Dylan with 4,883.

Eminem's ability to pack songs with so many words is not much different from the skill leaders need to appear more credible. According to research conducted by the University of Pennsylvania and published in the journal Cognition, you are more likely to be perceived as convincing if your explanation includes useless (though accurate) information...

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