How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure
I came across a learning talk from Julian Treasure on how to speak. Here is a summary of the talk made by Gil Su Kim in the youtube comment section which I find to be worth sharing. Let's enjoy the talk. The video is given at the end of this post.
1. Seven deadly sins of speaking to avoid
2. What I need to say
Four powerful cornerstones of speech to make a change in the world
c.f. "hail means to greet or acclaim enthusiastically"
3. How I need to say
Tools to play with to increase power of my speech
4. Exercise the following before making a presentation
1. Seven deadly sins of speaking to avoid
- Gossip -> I need to work on this sin
- Judging -> I need to work on this sin
- Negativity -> I need to work on this sin
- Complaining -> I need to work on this sin
- Excuses
- Lying (embroidery, exaggeration)
- Dogmatism (confusion between fact and opinion)
2. What I need to say
Four powerful cornerstones of speech to make a change in the world
c.f. "hail means to greet or acclaim enthusiastically"
- H: honesty (be clear and straight)
- A: authenticity (be myself)
- I: integrity (be my word)
- L: love (wish them well)
3. How I need to say
Tools to play with to increase power of my speech
- Register: e.g. if wanting weight, lower pitch of voice
- Timbre: the way voice feels e.g. breathing, posture
- Prosody: rhythm (e.g. not monotone)
- Pace: e.g. slow to emphasize
- Pitch: e.g. make pitch high or low
- Volume: e.g. louder to emphasize
4. Exercise the following before making a presentation
- Arms up to sigh out with ahh
- Lips with ba ba
- Lips with brrr
- Tongue with la
- Tongue rolling an r
- Siren from we to aww
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