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#+TITLE: How to speak
#+Author: Yann Esposito
#+Date: [2021-10-28]
#+LANG: en

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* 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, probably 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 something 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 theatre
** 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