tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88038054793549867392024-03-14T03:14:57.677-05:00The Passionate SpeakerA forum for comment, analysis and instruction on the art and craft of public speaking.Mike Landrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01205232912979096585noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803805479354986739.post-5436454400874837292021-02-19T11:28:00.001-05:002021-02-19T11:28:59.453-05:00<p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #c60000; font-size: 18pt;">Hide and Seek</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #c60000; font-size: 18pt;">* * *</span></b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">“Only connect.”</span></i><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">E. M. Forster</span></i><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ours is a culture of shame. Just ask John Bradshaw and the other pundits of co-dependency. Very few Americans grow up without acquiring a burden of childish guilt, embarrassment, or painful remorse from the natural missteps and faux pas of youth. We carry them everywhere, like Morley’s chains, except they dog our steps in this life, not the next. These fetters snare us when we rise to speak. This is the fearful risk we meet in the eyes of every audience: we might mess up. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">“Mike Landrum stiffly played a stiff young man.” That was my review in the Cleveland Plain Dealer after a performance in summer stock. I was eighteen years old and, yes, a bit stiff. It’s a sentence that has found a home in my mental “cupboard of shame” for over forty years. There is little compensatory satisfaction in the thought that I have probably outlived that reviewer. The words still sting.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Actors are the easy targets for shame, putting ourselves on display with our eager egos. But of course, we are not alone. That is the fate of all who aspire. The Japanese have a discouraging proverb: “The nail that sticks up gets pounded down.” They are a culture so rigidly shame-based they have made suicide an accepted means of redemption. The relationship a speaker, or any performer has with the audience, pivots on his or her fear of shame and their choice of strategies to overcome that fear. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">There are two basic strategies: You can Hide or Seek. You can put on armor, build a defensive persona, and get some distracting audio-visual aids to hide behind; or you can seek rapport with the audience, take the greater risk of remaining vulnerable, and open yourself to them. This reflects a dispute that has been going on in the community of actors for at least the past half century: whether an actor should work emotionally or technically. The technicians like to work with the externals, ignoring their actual feelings and providing the appropriate indications of the character’s emotional life. In other words, faking it. For those who work internally, the genuine emotional life of the actor trumps these pretenses and creates a greater rapport, or belief, in the audience. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Speakers face a similar choice. Here, technique has morphed into technology, which is most apparent in the TelePrompTer, PowerPoint, and other computer-generated tools. But there are subtler, non-technological ways a speaker can use technique, such as the development of a performance mask. An experienced speaker who has found a successful speech and delivered it over and over for a period of years, will find that the speech follows its own well-worn groove automatically. He or she will become stuck in the ruts created by constant repetition, and rapport with the audience will diminish or disappear.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">A telemarketer or salesperson who works from a set script, will create an automaton-like delivery. Often these people will develop this style intentionally, go through training to achieve exactly the same inflection on certain words in the script. At this point speaking has become a lifeless, mechanical thing; the listener is no longer relevant. These speakers don’t even seek rapport, only sales. Amazingly, they must get them or the practice would not persist.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">The rapport seeker knows that the truest communication occurs between human beings directly. Keeping in touch with the audience is primary to this speaker. While the analogy for the technical speaker might be a tape recording, or a puppet show; the analogy for the rapport seeker could be a dancer, or jazz musician. Her focus is on interaction and responsiveness. Dancers move in a flow of action and reaction to the many variables around them, the music, their partners, the ballroom, the observers and so forth. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">I have recently experienced an interesting concept called ‘Speaking Circles.’ The invention of a former stand-up comedian and screenwriter named Lee Glickstein, Speaking Circles operate from the premise that your vulnerability is your strength. The way it works is simple and effective: a few people (not more than 8) sit in a circle and agree to be entirely supportive of one another. Criticism, advice and instruction are off limits. Only positive, encouraging and supportive feedback is allowed. Their chief objective in speaking is rapport; they seek to listen to one another with selfless generosity, and in doing so, they reach a deep, harmonic, understanding we seldom find in conventional speaker-audience relationships. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">I am impressed with Glickstein’s book “Be Heard Now,” which I recommend highly and unhesitatingly. He teaches the importance of listening skills, especially in the speaker, who must make an effort to receive communication from the audience. Long-time readers of this newsletter will recognize a favorite theme of mine. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">But there are ditches on both sides of the road. Glickstein does not address the problems facing the speaker in the normal course of business presentations, where questions of time, clarity, purpose and objective must be met. In the everyday world, the audience is not there for the speaker’s benefit, but the other way around. There are times when nothing will serve but meeting their expectations. This requires a certain technical facility, even a working knowledge of PowerPoint.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">The best method is a blend of these two styles of speaking. We need to be in touch with our feelings, and the audiences’, but we need to maintain enough detachment to accomplish our objectives. Too much feeling and we become self-indulgent, too much technique and we become robotic. All things in moderation, the Greeks taught. There are techniques essential to the success of any speech, which can and should be learned and practiced. It would be a shame to ignore them.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d24b54; font-size: 14pt;">* * *</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d24b54; font-size: 14pt;">Something to Ponder</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">-KahlilGibran, mystic, poet and artist (1883-1931)</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #c60000; font-size: 14pt;">* * *</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">© 2003 Michael F. 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<b>A Newsletter for Speakers</b><br />By<br />Michael Landrum<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Every Speech Should Entertain</b></span><br /></div>
"Ennui, felt on the proper occasions, is a sign of intelligence." – Clifton Fadiman<br />
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<br />A speech should have a solid and serious purpose: to inform, persuade or inspire the audience towards a specific goal. But if a speech is not entertaining on some level, it will fail in that purpose. Every speech must entertain, in the broadest sense of the word.<br /><br />There are many ways to entertain. Stories are the most common element of entertainment, but any sort of surprising or unusual phrase, rich language, a startling metaphor, or a little-known fact, can intrigue and entertain an audience. So, rather than just say 87 years, one well-known speaker chose "fourscore and seven years ago. . . " and transformed the mundane into the memorable. Lincoln had a genius for making phrases that were poetic and interesting; he makes us think, pause, relish the words and ponder their meaning long afterwards. That's entertainment.<br /><br />While I am not in favor of speakers telling ‘jokes,' I do appreciate it when one goes to the trouble to season a speech with wit – borrowed, bought, stolen or homegrown. Quotations, epigrams, and wisecracks from the past are an excellent source of wit. Casey Stengel could have been describing the talent of quoting rather than managing when he called it: "The art of getting credit for all the home runs that somebody else hits."<br /><br />I love quotes. I'm also fond of daffy-nitions such as "Nut – a fruit built like an oyster;" or "Kibitzer – the unmarried Siamese twin," or "Fun – which is like insurance – the older you get, the more it costs." The problem is, these things are like peanuts – it's hard to know when to stop. Unfortunately, some speakers have come to resemble the airlines who now give peanuts where we used to get meals. Too many speeches offer a couple of one-liners and then back to the heavy lifting.<br /><br />The square meal of speaking will always be the story. There is an art to finding a story with a point that is entertaining and can stand on its own. If it carries a message congruent to the speaker's point, that is a pure trifecta. A good story well told can be pressed into service to illuminate many different points. It's a challenge to find stories and turn them in the light to see their various facets and meanings. Here's a story from my childhood that has been a standard at the Landrum holiday table for years. I would be interested in knowing what moral or message it carries for you.<br /><br />When I was six years old and my little brother, Mit, was four, we lived in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Steamboat was mainly a cow town in those years just after World War II. With a population of 1,500 or so, it was hardly the resort it has become since. Dad was driving a bulk gasoline truck for Mobil, and times were hard for us. The winter of 1948 was one of the toughest in the history of that area. We had snow in August. By fall the blizzards came as regular as breakers on a beach, and by December people had to tunnel out of their houses. We had been snowbound for a long time and the week before Christmas we still had no Christmas tree in our newly-built, four-room cement-block house.<br /><br />Then one day, the sun broke through and the sky blessed us with that clear, deep azure the mountain people love to see on a winter afternoon. "Now's our chance to go get a tree!" Mom said, and we all piled in the Chevy.<br /><br />Folks in Steamboat didn't buy their trees at the grocery store in 1948. They figured, living in the middle of one of the largest evergreen forests in the world, the thing to do was cut your own. We drove out on the back roads and admired the trees. "There's a nice one, Stu," said Mom, pointing to a little fir about fifty yards from the road. "Are you sure, Becky? I'm only gonna cut one." We voted and that tree was it. So dad got the ax and some rope out of the trunk and stepped off the road toward the tree. He immediately sank into the snow up to his armpits. "My!" said Mom, "It didn't look that deep."<br /><br />Dad waded across to the tree, and with much effort and many stops for breath, he managed to cut it down. He tied the rope to it and dragged it back to the car. When he reached the firm road at last, he was so exhausted that he just lay there and gasped for air. Mit, already showing signs of becoming the scientist, examined him closely and asked in a detached tone "Is he gonna die?"<br /><br />The tree, which from the car had seemed about six feet tall, was three times that length when he got it back to the road. So when dad recovered, Mom picked out the best looking eight feet and they cut it and tied it to the roof. It trimmed up nicely and its fresh, wild, scent filled our little house to the rafters. It was the first Christmas I can vividly remember and it gives me great pleasure to bring it out again to share with you, like an old and cherished ornament.<br /><br />The next summer we found ourselves out driving again, when Mom suddenly exclaimed "Oh! This is the road where we cut our Christmas tree! Let's look for the stump." At first we had no luck but finally, on the return trip, Mit sang out "There it is!" And there, across a deep ravine stood a twenty-foot tall Douglas fir tree with a missing top.<br /><br /><br />
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<br />"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. "<br /><br />-John Kenneth Galbraith, economist<br /><br />© Michael F. Landrum<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“Life shrinks or expands in
proportion to one's courage.”</span></i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Bea Resnick rose to give her first speech as a
Toastmaster, her Ice Breaker. She walked to the front as though the ice was
thin beneath her feet and breaking it was the last thing she wanted to do. She
reached the lectern and clung to it, blinking helplessly at us. “My name is
Bea. . .” there was a long pause. “I just can’t do this,” she said, blushing
vividly and returning to her seat. The room was silent for a long moment. Every
one of us sitting there empathized with Bea. The Toastmaster stood up and spoke
to her. “That was a good first step, Bea,” he said, and began a hearty round of
applause. “We look forward to your next speech.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Bea did make the speech on the next try and
proceeded to rip through the manual in less than a year, while climbing the
leadership ladder. Within three years she became president of our club and an
Area Governor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I would guess that most people come to Toastmasters
in order to overcome their fear of public speaking. I love going to meetings
because I know at the very least I will see a demonstration of courage. We all
feel more vulnerable when standing before a group of attentive, listening
people. A mantle of leadership descends on our shoulders and with it the weight
of responsibility, expectation and opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Why is speaking in public so terrifying? What are
we afraid of, anyway? I believe the roots of this fear go back to the
beginnings of the human race and into the depths of the human brain. Stepping
out of the group onto the savanna three million years ago or to the lectern
today it triggers a fight, flight or freeze response in humans. Science has
traced this response to a vital part of the deep brain called the amygdala, the
emotional switchboard of the brain. Signals come here before they enter the
higher cognitive parts of the brain so that instant action can be taken if
necessary, before we even have time to think it over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">In his groundbreaking book, Emotional Intelligence,
Daniel Goleman cites research that indicates that some people have a more
sensitive amygdala, a lower threshold of fear, than others. It appears to be a
genetic trait. But he also shows that many people born with this trait are able
to overcome their predilection to fear when given support and encouragement.
They are gradually able to face the fearful and become bolder and more
confident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">We in Toastmasters know this process well. Through
encouragement and support we acquire the habit of courage. Remember the first
time you tried to ride a bike? Or ski? Or drive a car? There is at least a
small fear involved in almost every new endeavor from skydiving to attempting
the Sunday Times crossword with a pen. Practice and repetition gradually
diminish these fears. The third time you try ice skating is easier than the
first, and by the tenth time you find those moments of trepidation to be part
of the fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“Outward Bound” programs teach the habit of courage
by putting people in life-threatening situations such as surviving in the
wilderness or scaling a sheer rock wall. I knew a fellow who paid good money to
be cast adrift in a lifeboat with six other guys 200 miles out in the Atlantic.
Now that’s scary. But the point of those exercises is to stretch the courage
muscles. Once you have faced fear and prevailed, you stand taller, feel
stronger and stride through life with greater confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Toastmasters is a sort of “Inward Bound” program,
it seems to me. Our members often face an internal demon that paralyzes them
with fear, as in the case of Bea. But like Bea, we discover that once the fear
is faced and conquered, we are propelled into a life with larger ambitions. For
some, an experience of victory over fear brings a tremendous sense of
accomplishment and a thirst for more. Like Cyrano, they want to crow, “I am too
great to battle with mere mortals. Bring me Giants!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Here are four useful tips that may help alleviate
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">1) Become “other-conscious.”</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> People
think they become self-conscious as a result of their fear, but actually it
works the other way around. If you are self conscious, as many beginning
speakers are, you are more prone to the fears and anxieties of your situation.
Fear feeds on itself and there is no cycle as vicious as feeling afraid and
constantly reinforcing it with thoughts like “I’m so scared I can hardly
breathe,” or “My palms are sweating and my legs feel weak. . . “ This sort of
self-talk can lock you up for good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Instead, replace your self-consciousness with
other-consciousness. Make a strong conscious effort to focus on your audience.
I know that’s the last thing you feel like doing, but it’s the best way out.
Find a single person out there who is listening to you and make contact with
your eyes. Smile at them. Now stay with that person long enough to deliver a
full sentence or a complete thought, making sure they understand it. Then move
to another person and repeat the exercise. The key is to connect and
communicate by actively taking responsibility for the other person’s
understanding of what you’re telling them. If you really do that, by the third
person, you will have forgotten your fears, sweaty palms and knocking knees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">2) Anxiety feels worse than it looks. </span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">My early
years as an actor in New York were marked by failure. I couldn’t get over my
anxiety at auditions - especially for television. I felt transparent in front
of the camera, convinced that all these powerful feelings of fear and
self-doubt were clearly visible to everyone. I would often point them out to
the auditors and hope they would take pity on me and cast me for my candor and
courage – “What a brave guy to admit he’s scared to death.” Somehow, that
didn’t work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Then I got onto a TV quiz show, on NBC in the
afternoon and I hit the jackpot! I won gobs of stuff - cars, televisions, trips
to Europe, furniture, a sailboat and even some cash. I went from welfare and
the unemployment line to a state of world-class materialism - at least that’s
how it felt. But the most important benefit I got from that experience was when
they broadcast the shows a couple of weeks later. Throughout the taping, I had
felt all my usual anxieties and self-doubts, but when I saw myself on the
broadcast it looked as if butter wouldn’t melt in my mouth. I seemed calm and
collected. That’s when I realized that anxiety feels worse than it looks. If I
can only refrain from calling attention to my fears and anxieties, nobody will
know about them. I can get on with doing the task at hand and not bother
stopping to tattle on myself. It’s a classic case of fake it till you make it -
act confident and soon enough you feel confident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">3) Make it look easy.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> I once
saw the debut of a young clarinetist with the New York Philharmonic doing a
Mozart concerto. After each solo the clarinetist would slump and gasp and make
a great show of effort before launching once more into a rapidly fingered
cadenza or a set of arpeggios. We in the audience became fixed on his effort
and worried that he was somehow out of his depth with this music. Actually, he
played quite well, and I finally realized that this was his way of showing off.
He was trying to make the music seem more difficult out of some misbegotten
idea that we would then admire him more. The result was that we could not enjoy
the music through our concern for the musician. Many of us ended the concert
feeling angry and resentful toward the young man for so needlessly drawing
attention to himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Making a great show of effort is pushing your ego
at the audience. We want to hear the speech rather than the speaker. Successful
speaking requires a measure of humility. The ideas and thoughts of the speech
and how they may benefit the audience are the vital thing. Deliver these with
grace, style and by all means enthusiasm, but do not punish us with laborious
effort or other irrelevant ego needs. A speech easily delivered is gladly
received.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Another tip to make the speech seem easier is to
vary the rate of delivery. If you’re normally a slow talker your audience is
probably way ahead of you. Pick up the pace and your delivery will feel more
natural. If your nerves cause you to increase your rate of speech, ease up.
Motor-mouthing will tire an audience out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">4) Let yourself be encouraged.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> Some
people resist encouragement. Low self-esteem, false modesty, or a need to
appear self-effacing will cause them to say “Oh, thanks for saying so, but I’m
not really that good, I know. . .” Toastmasters is a place where it is safe to
nourish visions of success. Take advantage of that supportive atmosphere and
get on your own side. Learn to give yourself the benefit of the doubt you would
easily extend to anyone else. Persistence is the most useful virtue in the
human heart. You’re never beaten until you admit it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Eleanor Roosevelt was by nature a timid,
introverted person who was terrified of speaking in public, but because she was
married to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she found herself facing audiences
regularly. She suffered horribly from her stage fright, and yet she faced her
fear and moved beyond it to become one of the great speakers of the 20th
century, a tireless advocate for the disenfranchised in America. Her words can
inspire us still:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to
say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that
comes along.” . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”</span></i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif', sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif', sans-serif;"><b>Advice for Donald Trump . . . and the voting public.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "MS Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "MS Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif', sans-serif;">"Much has been given to us, and much will rightfully be
expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can
shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its
greatness into relations with other nations of the earth; and we must behave as
beseems a people with such responsibilities. Toward all other nations, large
and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must
show not only in our words but in our deeds that we are earnestly desirous of
securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous
recognition of all their rights. . . No weak nation that acts manfully and
justly should ever have cause to fear us, and no strong power should ever be
able to single us out as a subject for insolent aggression."<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mike
Landrum</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our fears shape the world
for us.</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For centuries the
European world ended at a certain place on the coast of Morocco called Cape
Bojador (Bo-zha-door). The ancient mariners were forced to hug the coast
by their fear of the open ocean. This Cape, so inconsequential we need a
magnifying glass to find it on a modern map of Africa, was a place where the
currents and shoals were treacherous, shallow water and dangerous rocks ran far
out into the open Atlantic. Sailors were convinced a ship crossing there could
never return.</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Along came a
Portugese Prince — Henry the Navigator in the early 1400's. This
man had the vision to see beyond that fearsome cape. He knew if he could
send ships around Africa, they could bring back the wealth of the orient.
He founded what was, in effect, the first modern research institute at
Sagres in southern Portugal. From there he sent fourteen expeditions to
try to force a passage around Cape Bojador, and they all came back with the
same story — failure. As the chronicle of the time put it: “They were
threatened not only by fear but by its shadow.”</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When the fifteenth
Caravel approached Bojador her Captain grasped the sailors oldest, deepest fear
by the throat. Amid his crew’s shouts of protest and threats of
rebellion, he steered west, into the unknown perils of the open ocean.
The end of the world was mastered at last. The fear evaporated like
a bogey-man when the lights are turned on. Africa was explored, the
Indies were exploited and Portugal grew rich. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Fear is the great
stopper in all of our lives, is it not? While we may not have the shores
of continents to trace, we do suffer from the shadows of our own fears and
anxieties. I myself have been afraid of countless people, things and
events. Everything from solid geometry to pretty girls to the Viet Cong
have at one time or another caused me to pause and tremble, fear in my throat
and doubt in my belly. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Yes, fear can stop us
cold. Or it can prod us on.</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Look at the monuments
the human race has built out of fear: the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China,
the Pentagon, these are obvious — but consider — is not civilization itself a
direct result of the overwhelming fears felt by a primitive race of primates
three million years ago? In their tender vulnerability, with completely
helpless infants, they had only just begun to stand erect and look out over the
wide savannas of East Africa. And what were they afraid of?
Everything. Most of the animal world was their superior in strength
and speed and tooth and claw. Fight or flight was the only law.
Fear was the spur that has brought us from eating raw snails in the rift
valley to eating escargot at the Four Seasons. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What to learn here?
Only this. Respect your fear. Do not wish it away. It is
primal and essential. It is the mother of necessity and so the
grandmother of invention. It is a source of power that we carry with us
always. Even into our dreams. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Some years ago, I was
deep in a conflict with my therapist. A transference battle. One
night I had a nightmare. I dreamed I was being chased by a killer with a
gun. Have you ever had such a nightmare? This was one of those
awful chases in which you feel as though you’re wading through molasses while
the killer comes toward you inexorably. Cornered at last, I was about to
play my last hope for escape — I knew I was dreaming and I could wake up and be
out of this awful terror. But something told me that if I did that, if I
woke up, the killer would return more powerful than before. I knew I must
turn and face him. Quaking all over, I watched the hideous ogre approach,
weapon raised. I held my breath. . . and he put the gun in my hand and
began to show me how to use it. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It turns out that my
greatest fear is a fear of my own power. I am afraid to succeed, to
surpass my father, to become who I really am. That has been the Cape
Bojador in my life. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What is keeping you from the
unexplored continents of your life? Face your fears. Sail on.
The riches of the east await you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">No Time Like The Present</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">"You
are not the voice in your head – you are the hearer of that voice." –
Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">* * *<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The
harshest critic most people will hear comes from the voice in their own heads.
It’s certainly true for actors. I could be on stage, in the midst of a
performance, everything going smoothly, the audience caught up in the play, but
in the back of my mind the reviews are not good. Self-judgment is sabotage.
That darn voice is pointing out every tiny imperfection in my work and creating
self-consciousness – which is the very definition of bad acting. “Don’t think
so much,” an acting teacher once told me, “just be.” I had no idea how to do
that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">This
is a problem for speakers as well as actors. Actors are the canaries in the
psychological coal mine. By parsing the emotional grammar of life, they can
illuminate behavior in ways that might not occur otherwise. Dealing with inner
demons is a case in point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I
remember when I first became aware of the split in my mind. I was young and
green and needy and ambitious and neurotic. I was floundering to make my life
work, every failure a cue to despair, every success containing a fatal flaw. I
felt unfulfilled and frustrated, driven by the inner voice’s demands for
perfection, like a dog chasing its own tail. Fulfillment was an ever-receding
horizon. Success be damned, that inner critic was never satisfied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Then,
one beautiful summer morning, I was driving down the Palisades Parkway with the
sunroof open, a Mozart piano concerto on the radio, and it suddenly struck me
that the only thing the universe actually required of me at that moment, was
that I drive along listening to the music and enjoying the sun on my face. The
voice was gone. I was supremely in touch with the moment, and the experience
was overwhelming. Tears streamed down my face and I realized that I could be
free of the inner critic. The voice was not me, or God, or life’s imperative
laying on a guilt trip – it turns out the problem was my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I’ve
been reading a great book called<i> The Power of Now</i>, by Eckhart Tolle. He says
that in order to get into the present moment, you have to be out of your mind.
That is, as long as you are living in your mind, thinking, you are out of touch
with the now. If you think about it, you’ll see it makes sense. Thoughts are
“time-bound,” always else-when, caught up in the past or fantasizing about the
future – the present moment is that infinitesimally thin space between the two.
‘The Now’ is the absence of time, therefore the experience of NOW is
thoughtless. We in this culture have very few experiences of the present moment
because the constant yammering of our thoughts fill every nook and cranny of
our consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">When
we are living in the present moment, thoughtless and simply being, we are as
close to enlightenment as it’s possible to be this side of the grave, says
Eckhart Tolle. The “egoic” mind exists in time, and time is the enemy of the
now. Joseph Campbell referred to the present moment as our only experience of
the eternal. Tolle calls it the absence of time, the end of suffering and the
real definition of enlightenment. In the now is where we are able to feel the
experience of being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">For
speakers, being is the purest communication. Emerson said “who you are being
speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you’re saying.” ‘Being’ communicates by
itself. Imagine the impact of Phidippides, having run from the battlefield of
Marathon to deliver news of victory and peril before dying on the steps of the
Parthenon. Or remember Lou Gehrig, “the luckiest man on the face of the earth”
delivering a statement of grace and courage. It was his being that gave the
words such depth and meaning. You don’t even have to get the words right. Neil
Armstrong botched his line as he stepped onto the lunar surface, but who cares?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">No
matter what the particular circumstances, there is always one thing that a speaker
shares with his or her audience – the present moment. The experience of being
human beings sharing the now creates in us the sense of unity with each other
that is the purest definition of communication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">A Thought to Ponder</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">"The
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Michael F. Landrum<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Mike Landrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01205232912979096585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803805479354986739.post-56887600327210732152014-09-28T12:18:00.000-05:002015-06-29T14:49:58.097-05:00Key Thoughts<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt;">Key
Thoughts</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt;">by Mike Landrum</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt;">(Updated June, 2015)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p> * * *</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">A
thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an
action
which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">- Georges Bernanos, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">French Novelist & Political Writer</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p>* * * </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Speech
is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often
substitutes for both. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">- John Andrew Holmes</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p>* * * </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Every time U.S.Open Champion Jordan Speith approaches a golf
shot; every time tennis champion Serena Williams steps to the line to serve;
every time Mets first baseman Lucas Duda comes up to the plate with his baseball bat, a key
thought is at work. These thoughts are the keys that unlock an athlete's best
performances. They are the final and most crucial preparation that focus the
mind, steady the heart and let the desired action begin.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">There is usually a ritual that goes along with it
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.0pt;">–</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">the
same number of practice swings, the same series of moves, breaths and rhythms
precede the start of the golf shot, the tennis serve, the baseball pitch. These
external movements and gestures accompany an internal ritual as well. Jordan Speith must visualize a successful outcome for the shot he is concentrating on,
he must relax, rehearse the move in his mind, and prepare himself imaginatively
for the release of all his power. It is the most important thinking an athlete
does.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">All performers have a similar preparatory drill.
Actors are trained to enter a scene "loaded" which means to be
present and alive to the character, circumstances, action and emotions of the
play. A poorly prepared actor can destroy the audience's belief in the play </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.0pt;">–</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">as
sometimes happens when a stagehand wanders out into a scene. Actors must adjust
their thoughts and feelings in favor of those of the character they are
playing. Imaginative thought creates real behavior.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">In 1945, Lawrence Olivier played Oedipus in
Sophocles' great tragedy. At the end of the play when Oedipus discovers that he
has unwittingly killed his father and married his mother, he let out a scream
so horrifying that it sent shudders through the audience. His key thought for
that moment came from the Russian method of trapping ermine, the white-</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">coated
animals whose fur was so highly prized that it adorned the robes of the Czars.
In winter, when the ponds and rivers are frozen, the Russian hunters scatter
salt on the ice. The ermine are drawn irresistibly to the salt and when they
lick it their tongues stick to the ice. The hunters simply return the next
morning and club the animals to death. Olivier imagined being stuck helplessly
by the tongue like the Russian ermine and that was enough to create the horror
of Oedipus's situation.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">What possible application can this have for
speakers? When speakers approach the lectern they should have an idea in
mind of what they want to communicate and how to begin. Sometimes the
best key will be a thought of the objective of the speech, getting the first
idea across, or making good eye contact with individuals in the audience.
</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">I'll provide one example which some of my clients
have found useful.
The late Helen Hayes, the "First Lady of the American
Theatre," used to say "act with a warm heart and a cool head."
This is the basis for a valuable key thought for speakers. Imagine your heart
and lungs as a hot air balloon, swelling and rising as they fill with warmth,
not to lift you off the ground, but simply to become the center of your being.
Let your arms and shoulders drop naturally to your sides and get in touch with this
"high-</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">hearted"sensation.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Now, think of your mind, calm and tranquil,
peering out of your skull, cool and solid as an ancient Greek temple. Let your
head settle down in front of the column of your neck so that your eyes are level to the
horizon. (Yes, that's another thing to be aware of - your spine connects to your skull <i>behind your face</i>, at about the same level as your eyes.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">This image, this dual key thought, can serve you in several ways.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Your heart, your chest should be high, lifted
from within, which lets your shoulder muscles relax and drop. This is a much
more flexible and open stance than a military erectness imposed by the shoulders and rigid outer
muscles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Above this high-</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">chested, expansive torso, floats your head, serene and cool, with a
level gaze. Just allowing your head to adopt this position will encourage your
mind to take on a similar attitude. You will be standing at your full height,
leading with your heart - open, vulnerable and strong. You'll be willing to drop
your shoulders, arms and hands in a natural way. Your head and neck will float
above, cool, level and alert.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">This is a perfect posture for speaking. Your
lungs will be able to gather their full capacity of air. By letting the
shoulders drop naturally, the diaphragm will take on its rightful role as the
driver of your voice, assisted by the abdominal muscles. With a level head, the
larynx or voice box will be in its optimum position between the resonating
chambers of the chest and face.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">The biggest payoff may be the way this posture
and these ideas make you and your audience feel. The word 'courageous' comes
from the French root "cour" or heart. When you lead with your heart
you feel both more and less vulnerable. This is a good definition of courage.
It would be hard to find an attitude that is more attractive to audiences than
a confident, level-</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">eyed fearlessness.
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with which to begin a presentation, and you will surely find your own way. The
chief message in this bit of coaching is to create your key thoughts
intentionally. Let it become a habit with you, a ritual to begin every speech.
As Earl Nightingale said, "we are what we think about, having become what
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Here I tell three true anecdotes from nearly fifty years ago . . . a safe enough distance to find them amusing. I hope you do too!Mike Landrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01205232912979096585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803805479354986739.post-36982387040804302782014-03-20T17:15:00.001-05:002014-06-06T21:33:51.752-05:00Getting started over parental predictions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Did your parent influence your choice of a career? I didn't think so, and yet . . .<br />
It's a good strategy to tell a personal story. It can build rapport and human understanding. What's your story?Mike Landrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01205232912979096585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803805479354986739.post-75346600308616027592014-03-07T11:04:00.002-05:002014-03-07T11:04:31.772-05:00Executive Speakers tip - Kangaroo Arms<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_TdZ8to50oQ" width="560"></iframe>Mike Landrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01205232912979096585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803805479354986739.post-57715516416135705502014-03-05T17:17:00.000-05:002014-03-06T22:20:48.648-05:00<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TdZ8to50oQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TdZ8to50oQ</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1853820491"></span><span id="goog_1853820492"></span><br />
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Do you hide behind your "kangaroo arms?" No need to. Just get into the habit of dropping your guard and using open, generous gestures. Practice a little - you'll see!Mike Landrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01205232912979096585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803805479354986739.post-25688421195283679962014-02-16T15:15:00.001-05:002014-03-06T22:20:48.640-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYyuQZKQ04Q">Tip for Executive Speakers #101</a> Click for video tip!<br />
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Listen Generously - Too many speakers would agree with what Adlai Stevenson once told an audience of unruly hecklers on the campaign trail in 1952: "It's my job to speak, it's your job to listen. If you finish your job before I finish mine, could you please leave quietly!" No wonder he lost.<br />
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While we may be speakers, it's not our only job. We need to receive as well as transmit, to listen before and as we speak. Remember, a successful speech is a conversation, amplified. Next tip - next week!Mike Landrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01205232912979096585noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803805479354986739.post-75121042562212085782013-10-27T15:25:00.003-05:002014-03-15T11:43:52.491-05:00The Penalty of Leadership<div class="MsoNoteLevel1CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
Why are we all afraid of public speaking? I call that fear the “penalty of leadership” and it’s one probable factor that accounts for the scarcity of great leaders in the world. It takes courage to grasp the nettle, step out in front of any group and point the way forward.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I think this irrational fear, anxiety, dread - whatever you want to call it - began far back in our evolutionary history. When we first climbed out of the trees onto the savannas of Africa, what were we? Fresh meat, essentially - and that fear was not so irrational then. Compared to the rest of the animal kingdom we lacked the teeth, claws, strength, speed and thick hide necessary to survive in that world of saber-toothed tigers. It’s a wonder we lasted ten minutes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In those prehistoric times we had only three things going for us.<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> </span>We had: 1) an opposable thumb; 2) the beginnings of a cerebral cortex (so we could learn from any mistakes we survived); and 3) an instinctive ability to communicate with each other. Number 3 is what saved us. It helped us band together in groups, teams – to protect each other’s hairy butt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The law of the jungle states that <i>there is safety in numbers</i> – it’s still at work in the great herds of Africa today. The fatal corollary to that law means: “<i>the individual who becomes separated from the group is vulnerable to attack by predators.”</i> Our ancestors lived by that law for millions of years, and I think it became embedded in our deepest brains, even into the strands of our DNA. So, whenever someone separates themselves from a group to take the lead, to stand solitary and apart, they are reliving that ancient and dangerous situation. Standing alone in front of an audience we all feel vulnerable.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s why it takes courage to lead, and skill as well, to overcome the defensive, compulsive behaviors common among public speakers. We feel compelled to sweep the eyes from side to side, scanning the room as if looking for a hidden predator. We feel like running, so it becomes difficult to keep the feet quiet, to anchor the stance and hold one’s ground. We want to hide, so the hands come up in front of the belly to guard the vital organs within. Our metabolism speeds up with a racing heart rate; our breath becomes short and shallow, the voice pinched and faint.<o:p></o:p></div>
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None of these feelings or compulsive behaviors are useful to us as leaders. We must overcome them somehow if we are to persuade the crowd that we are confident, sure of our selves, and capable of leading them properly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So leadership requires skill as well as courage. The courage each of us must find on our own – though the experience of many trials, many speeches will definitely reduce the level of dread. The various skills of leadership we will address in future posts here on The Passionate Speaker.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As for passion, here again we have an overabundance of material to work with. There is spiritual passion, sexual passion, passion flowers, fruit, pie, and perfume. One can have a passion for Thai cooking, sports cars, high-heeled shoes or macadamia nuts. The objects of our passions are many, the fact of our passions is a uniting force that draws us together and lets us recognize one another as fellow humans. We mustn't let the word 'passion' be pre-empted by anger, fear and hatred, nor by lust, gluttony and greed. Passion is in us all. Passion communicates.<br />
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Ron Hoff, in his excellent book on presentation skills, I Can See You Naked, writes about speakers who occupy one of three zones. The grey zone is that flat, featureless place where the majority of speakers lead their audiences to be lulled into a stupor by numbing monotony, cliches, predictable stories and points nobody cares about. Hoff contrasts this tedious area with two colorful styles of presenting: the Blue Zone and the Red Zone. Blue is for the mental set - the analytical, academic, intellectual speaker who knows his beans, is super-organized and makes his or her points with military precision. Red is for the emotional set. Here we find the driven, surprising, impulsive and daring speakers - you may not always agree with them, but you won't forget them. <br />
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Passion, as I define it, is a purple zone - a combination of red and blue. Speakers, like actors, should remember Helen Hayes' recipe: "Act with a cool head and a warm heart." A "Passionate Speaker" is dedicated to communicating with the audience, has done the homework, knows the topic, feels deeply the importance of the message being delivered. Rather than play it safe, equivocate, hide behind jargon or ambivalent language, a passionate speaker comes from a deep knowledge and an equally deep feeling that he or she has something important to say. Passion, tempered by dispassion, creates compassion.Mike Landrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01205232912979096585noreply@blogger.com0