Increase your luck with a one sentence intro
Crafting Your Opening Line to Increase the Surface Area of your Luck.
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How to introduce yourself
Are you not getting the most out of your chance encounters in real life and online?
Having a well-crafted one-sentence intro, you greatly increase your surface area of luck in turning chance encounters into concrete opportunities.
Imagine you’re at a conference. Everyone’s paid thousands to be there to rub shoulders with the cream of the cream, people who shape the world of art and the business of illustration. Everyone is open, approachable, and willing to meet new people, but they are also in a hurry and aim to make the most of the time at the conference. How would you introduce yourself?
If you craft and practice a one-sentence introduction, you will be able to benefit the most from every opportunity (luck).
By incorporating your concise one-sentence introduction into your social media bio, you can effectively introduce yourself to valuable connections online—mirroring the networking opportunities of a conference but without the associated costs.
How to write a one sentence introduction
10 Minute Workshop
Let’s take ten minutes to workshop your next intro!
Answer these questions:
Who are you most seeking to serve, and why?
Identify the distinctive value you offer to your target audience.
What is the change your offering provides?
Finally, Write a one-sentence introduction, incorporating those elements.
Try it out with friends and strangers
For sketchbook prompts, draw your answers instead of writing them!
Meet Wendy
Now here’s an introduction to an actual artist you might meet at TED
is an artist, graphic journalist and educator whose wide-ranging, boundary-pushing work is rooted in a conviction that drawing, and the careful attention it requires of us, is an essential tool for creating human connection.
Wendy writes an excellent Substack called the Grown-Ups Table that feels like being at a kitchen table with grownups talking about and making art.
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PS: Announcement! I have a new book out!
You know the story … now let’s change it!Have you ever wondered why the Mean Old Witch is mean? Or why the Big Bad Wolf is bad?
They weren’t always that way… The Big Bad Wolf used to be small and sweet. But when a witch was mean to him, everything changed …
The Mean Old Witch used to be young and kind, singing to the birds and picking up litter, until an unfortunate encounter with a Horrible Stinky Troll …
Discover how unkind words and actions can have consequences – and how a simple apology has the magical power to transform everything!
The magical new picture book from award-winning children’s book creator Leigh Hodgkinson and exciting emerging illustrator Adam Ming.
Good stuff! Congratulations on your new book, looks amazing!