Become a Good Speaker pt.2- Improve speaking

After pointing out the power of Rhetoric, with an understanding of the use of hand movement, eye contact and necessary pause in the speech, the next step is to find out what we can do in order to improve our communication. 

However, it's very difficult to split nonverbal, oral and written communication into individual action plan, saying do this will improve nonverbal communication and do that will improve oral communication, because each of the communications are link together. 

Therefore, beside looking around to see who is the most determine or dominant person in class, you could also watch a few TED talk speaker video. However, you must do this consistently and make it a daily activity in order to convert the skill into your long term memories. 

Some great examples beside the victory speech given by President Obama in the previous post, that I found it very useful in terms of improve my own communication and rhetoric skill. 

The TED talk speaker, Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (2006). I found the topic was very interesting, and while it's interesting Sir Ken Robinson made it entertainment by including some humours during the talk, and he has definitely stolen audiences attention.  

Another good example will be Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do (2006). In the TED talk, there were a lot of point that make me rethink what I should do and why didn't I do that before. The way he gave the speech was very honest therefore it attracts me and obviously had attracted the audiences at the time. 

In both video suggested above, there was a very strong interaction with the audience whether by sharing a joke or asking question that seek a respond from the audience, it works! The hand movement was strong, make it clear of what he fully believe and convincing us to believe it too. 

In Tony Robbins TED talk, he interacted with the audience by saying "How many of you who knows what I'm talking about, give me an aight!" and the next second you could hear the room was full of "aight" in the video. 

So action 1, is to watch TED talk speaker handle their speech and the audience, and make it a daily activity, 

Another way that I think it would result an improvement in communication is be aggressive in any opportunity that offer yourself a chance to present a speech or project idea. However, this is depend on how much you want and how much heart you willing to put in. 

What I found by practicing this way is the fear of failure inside my mind. The first few attempts, I was speechless because I was afraid that I might say something wrong and people around me would make a joke out of it. However, what I did was speak to myself, convincing myself that this could be the last opportunity to either ask question or share my own idea. 

Once I raise up my courage to share my idea and ask question in few attempts, I then found an raise in my confident when speaking to others. 

"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.” ― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women

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