How to Speak (2018) [video]
Communication is perception. Whose perception? The recipient(s).<p>I'm 2 minutes in. Lecturer revealed a formula for quality speaking. Knowledge, he says, is the biggest of the three components.<p>He then takes about a minute using an anecdote about Mary Lou Retton to demonstrate why knowledge is so important.<p>And yet, I'm wondering, how many people in his audience know enough about who she is to understand what he seems to want to say is an important point?<p>If they don't, then I think he just lost a bunch of them in the first two minutes.<p>Communication is perception and if his audience can't perceive his analogy, he hasn't communicated.