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250 Things to Guarantee Your Speaking Success?
November 8, 2007 by 6minutes
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Hey Andrew, I am flattered that you took the time to analyze the list and kicked my butt. Ouch! What the list needs is some explanation of the context.
For eg, “treat your speech as a game”. It doesn’t mean that the speaker should not take his speech seriously… even games have rules and in this case, rule number one says audience always come first.
Having said that, what I want the speaker to do is enjoy the process of writing and delivering a speech (like what you do in games). Create your own thrills that will motivate you. In my case, I enjoy seeing my audience go “Ahh.. I din know that!” and so I will put in the extra effort to offer facts or figures that my audience are clueless about.
More about fun here:
http://blog.ericfeng.com/8-speaking-secrets-revealed-part-8/
I would be interested to read about your list of things that will help a speaker become a better speaker.
[…] 250 Things To Gurantee Your Speaking Success? There is this blogger from Canada (Andrew) who wrote an extensive entry in response to the list I created early this week. Though I do not agree with all his pointers, it is still worth your time to look at it. It’s always good to hear from other people’s perspective. I am definitely going to bookmark his blog because Andrew has written quite a number of great posts relating to public speaking. If you enjoy seeing me ripped, this is the article you got to read. […]