Public Speaking
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
— Charles Darwin
I posted this quote for the sole reason that it always makes me smile. But as I looked at the list of names, and their sequence, I realized that, in a simplistic way, these simple words also reflect our evolution of philosophy and thought. Socrates lived more than 2,400 years ago and his influence on thought is legendary. Jean Paul Sartre was a prominent French philosopher at the peak of the twentieth century. Frank Sinatra was born only ten years after Sartre but has come to embody a later generation.
I ain’t Martin Luther King. I don’t have a dream, I have a plan.
— Spike Lee
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
— George Burns
Of course there is nothing to say that this brilliant snippet of communication wisdom should be limited to sermons. It is also the secret of a good speech, a good presentation, or even a good email.
Net it out, people.