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It can feel unnatural to speak concretely about subject matter we've known intimately for years.
page: 115
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speaking
concreteness
The problem with trying to convey the edifice of all of your knowledge is that you can't fit it all in one 90-minute presentation. At best you can pluck a few building blocks from the roof, which results in meaningless recommendations and platitudes and inauthentic one-liners.
page: 236
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knowledge
speaking
People who are captivating speakers typically do no better than others in making their ideas stick--it's the stories that stick, regardless of the speaker.
page: 243
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ideas
stories
speaking
Your number-one mission as a speaker is to take something that matters deeply to you and to rebuild it inside the minds of your listeners.
page: 12
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speaking
mind
Language causes us to link concepts we already know in a new pattern. Speaking allows us to cause this to happen in other people's brains.
page: 18
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patterns
schema
speaking
language
To make a talk truly persuasive, it is not enough to build it out of watertight logical steps. Most people are capable of being convinced by logic, but they aren't always energized by it, and without that, they might quickly forget the argument and move on.
page: 94
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logic
argument
speaking
One of the first key decisions you need to make is whether you will: write out the talk in full as a complete script (to be read, memorized, or a combination of the two), or have a clearly worked-out structure and speak in the moment to each of your points.
page: 132
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speaking
Don't memorize your talks, precisely because the audience can hear memorized text very clearly, and it takes away from the spontaneous, engaged nature of speaking to a live audience. Also, when memorized speech fails, it fails catastrophically.
page: 145
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steven johnson
memorization
speaking
"When I walk on stage, I always know what I want to have said before I walk off again. But I also want to connect with these people in this room today. It doesn't matter how many rooms I've spoken in before, today's audience is always new and different."
page: 145
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sir ken robinson
audience
speaking
It's very important to rehearse multiple times, preferably in front of people you trust. Work on it until it's comfortably under your allocated time limit and insist on honest feedback from your rehearsal audience. Your goal is to end up with a talk whose structure is second nature to you so that you can concentrate on meaning what you say.
page: 155
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speaking
rehearsal
Find "friends" in the audience. Early on in the talk, look out for faces that seems sympathetic. If you can find three or four in different parts of the audience, give the talk to them, moving your gaze from one to the next in turn. Everyone in the audience will see you connecting, and the encouragement you get from those faces will bring you calm and confidence. (Speaking with friends will help you find the right tone of voice, too.)
page: 187
tags:
speaking
audience
Oration is capable of conveying passion and urgency and outrage, but it struggles with the many more subtle emotions. If you were speaking to a single person, you would not orate. You could not build a day-long conference program around oration.
page: 205
tags:
passion
speaking
emotion
Before, during, and after you think, say, or do anything, determine if it will harm someone
page: 177
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harm
speaking