Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
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Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.
Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
I have speakers all over my house because music is such a huge, huge part of who I am.
Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.
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