Seconded. One of the best changes I made to my pitch for Harvard EA was to stop sounding slightly embarrassed about effective altruism. It instantly changed the dynamic of the conversation from “are you going to be one of the 3 people who finds this weird idea interesting?” to “Hey! Check out this awesome thing you can do!”
If it helps a good start for me is “So effective altruism is really awesome, basically it means applying evidence and reason and the scientific method and so on to the goal of doing good in the world. Makes sense right? So a really simple example of this is doing research to assess charities to . . .”
Seconded. One of the best changes I made to my pitch for Harvard EA was to stop sounding slightly embarrassed about effective altruism. It instantly changed the dynamic of the conversation from “are you going to be one of the 3 people who finds this weird idea interesting?” to “Hey! Check out this awesome thing you can do!”
What does the beginning of your pitch sound like?
If it helps a good start for me is “So effective altruism is really awesome, basically it means applying evidence and reason and the scientific method and so on to the goal of doing good in the world. Makes sense right? So a really simple example of this is doing research to assess charities to . . .”
You reminded me that I actually already wrote this up on my blog. I’ve linked to it from the parent comment as well.