diff --git a/notes/how_to_speak.org b/notes/how_to_speak.org new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1372eaa1 --- /dev/null +++ b/notes/how_to_speak.org @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +:PROPERTIES: +:ID: 4ad5f64e-c330-4f36-8f8a-d82a1ae993a0 +:END: +#+TITLE: How to speak +#+Author: Yann Esposito +#+Date: [2021-10-28] +#+LANG: en + +- tags :: +- source :: + +* How to speak + MIT. Patrick Henry Winston +** How to start + - no joke + - a promise + - even before menu +** The BIG 4 +*** Cycle (say it, say it again, etc...) + - psychology, first loop bring in from long term memory necessary material + - probability, probality some individual miss what you say, say it about 3 times +*** Verbal punctuation + - time to get time on board + - "here I am" talking about X + - verbal boundaries between the points +*** Near Miss + - concept, but also something that isn't the concept but almost + - comparing examples by somthing that isn't the concept + - help establish its boundaries +*** Ask Question + - they should frequent and easy to answer + - pause for 5s between the question and ask the answer + - the pause feel very long for the speaker, but not for the audience +** Time & Place +*** best hour 10h30 in the morning + distribute candy bars after 15h +*** Hall well lit, outside if possible + never dim the light, etc... +*** Full + harder to have enthusiastic audience to a disperse audience +*** Flat + not theatrical like because people expect thatre +** Blackboard + usable blackboard is important +*** Draw + - allow you to draw, icons, pictures, etc... + - psychology, intelligence is buried in linguistic and visual system + - draw often +*** Lists + - make lists! +*** Target + - show something with your hands, point the blackboard + - a great talked pointed to zone not in relation with the talk, it was still + effective +** Overheads +*** DO NOT: read your transparences + people know how to read, and reading will just annoy them + substantial fraction of the audience will be annoyed +*** DO NOT: stand well appart from your transparences +*** DO NOT: wave your pointer around, becomes a distraction + you don't need it, because of the thing you have at the end of your arm +*** DO NOT: cover and uncover the slides + substantial fraction of the audience will be annoyed + - you can add things, colors + Transparent are often overused. +** Props +*** examples, demonstrations +** Style + How do you decide what to bring to your own personna? + - He didn't copy anybody, but look to everybody, and adapt to my own skills + - It's ok to be eccentric + - Use of a *story* +** How to Stop + Stopping is extremely difficult. +*** DO NOT: Thanks the audience + because it show you aren't sure about the value of your talk +*** JOKE + - make people think they had fun all time + - sometime you don't have a joke +*** DELIVER + - remind people of your promise +*** CALL FOR QUESTIONS +*** SALUTE + - "This conclude what I have to say" + - I wish to add only that + - Being here the past few days has been wonderfully stimulating and + provocating experience for me and I look forward to have the similar + experience in the future. +** Questions 1 + Ask yourself a question if no question. + non verbal communication is important, smile and look grateful +** Question 2-4 +** Postlude + - writing list and square + - people only learn what they almost already know, just incrementally add a + new information