I am tired. I didn’t go to bed too late. I slept fine. The alarm roused me at 6 and I stayed in bed until 6:30. There’s a presentation I’m registered to attend and I gotta get myself ready for it but my eyelids feel like there’s weights taped to them and I keep making silly mistakes. I decided to wear my gray pants… so I went to the hallway and checked my purse for them. As I was wading through my purse it hit me, my pants aren’t going to be here! I know why I was checking my purse. I had the gray pants in a bag in the hallway the other day… so it’s not like I am totally insane. Just a little.
I was supposed to meet Von Hayes last night but he hurt his back playing golf. It didn’t matter much to me because I have no idea who Von Hayes is anyway.
Yeah, I was at Camden’s Campbell’s field last night watching the Riversharks lose to visitor. All I can say is that Campbell’s field is GORGEOUS! Or at least the view is gorgeous! If you are in the Philly area and haven’t been there– definitely check it out.
Guys, I have to get ready. My makeup isn’t on and my hair isn’t done. All I want to do is stay flopped here on my ugly, faux leather chair with duct tape holding the seat together. But this presentation is important. It’s all about YouTube and I think there’s a good chance I might get some good stuff from it. Plus, the guys who’s presenting is an NLPer and Toastmaster and I want to contrast his presentation style with my own. As much as I want to believe he will be almighty– hypnotizing me with his preternatural skill– I am sure he’ll just be okay. And if he does hypnotize me with his abilities.. it will get me
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all the more ready to join my local Toastmasters group.
“Of all the classes of men, I dislike most those who make their livings by talking—actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. All of them participate in the shallow false pretenses of the actor who is their archetype. It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause of the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.”
— HL Mencken, 1880-1956
If he hypnotizes you, chances are you WILL be at toastmasters. You will feel “compelled” to be there. You will also stop smoking, lose weight, recollect your childhood fears, and simulate an orgasm in front of laughing spectators at a comedy show.
You are getting very sleepy….
So if you are curious– he was good. I wouldn’t say he was the greatest speaker ever… but he was a good speaker and he put together a really nice presentation. My PowerPoints are just bullets that encapsulate what I’m talking about– his PowerPoint was different– it was more like an illustration. And it was silly and funny. I really liked how he put it together. If he was using any NLP psychology stuff, I didn’t notice it– that is until he started talking about meta crap. Whatever. Still, it was awesome– I don’t know if it was worth 35.00 but I enjoyed it.
A good presenter will hide with deft deflection just how little they really know about a thing. Donna excepted (though I have never heard your spiel). Cutesy and imaginative rarely fly above the BS meter. Most often, it actually activates it.
Back before mass media created attention deficit disorder in 50% of America’s adolescents, the public in large part relied upon public speakers for their entertainment and education. Back when the Chautauqua movement was all the rage, it wasn’t uncommon for speakers to hold their audience spellbound FOR HOURS. Can you imagine that?
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/essay.htm
One of the greatest speakers of all time was an atheist named Robert Ingersol. He was THE master orator.