bleujazz3
11-26-2009, 10:29 PM
It's been some time since I have had my vision checked. Every so often I fail to see truthfully what exists in real life, and if I am working at our store where there is a great deal of complexity and distraction, I often don't see backgrounds (I wear progressive lenses for driving, computer work and reading) or what really is there.
I truthfully believe that this is because life has plenty of distractions that prevent us from seeing people and places as they exist.
Here on BaM, we often discuss ideas or certain physical objects in terms of ideas that convey meaning to a discussion. The actual fact is that in cyberspace, we are afforded a certain amount of anonymity that allows us to not entirely be truthful about ourselves. One reason we are this way is because in cyberspace, we often post ideas for all to read, which doesn't allow us to protect ourselves from those who might take advantage of such posts.
I began this post as describing as a need to have my vision checked. The next time you want to see how a person feels inside, one may only need to look a person in the eyes or face and read his expressions or reactions.
Personally, I am often distracted by music or real life situations that don't involve eye contact. One can't tell what a person is feeling if one doesn't have a view of the person.
That being said, in 5 weeks time, the last week of December, I have a speaking engagement where my study point is "visual contact with the audience." I am to speak from an outline, contemporaneously, to an audience, taking into account how the audience receives the speech. If I have prepared my talk well enough, I should be confident enough to present a talk that covers the discussion material, and motivates the audience to action. I have 5 minutes to do this.
This is the 2nd time I have been required to publicly cover material for our discussions, but it is the first time where I must do so from a larger body of written resource material. It is both exciting and challenging to be able to present this, much like a chef prepares a 5-course meal at an expensive restaurant. Not wanting to overdo things, I must remember to be conversational, accurate, and non-condescending to the audience.
Because the resource material is from the last chapter of one of our study publications, I am unsure of how to tie in the previous chapters of the book, and still motivate the audience in 5 minutes. I may not need to tie things from earlier in the book into the discussion, but merely show the importance of what we are concluding in the book, and how we benefit from it. That in itself may motivate the audience and reach the audience's heart, the seat of motivation. The key to being able to reach an audience is to ask questions of the written material, and provide answers to those questions after individual questions have allowed the audience to reason for themselves.
First thing I have to do is read the last chapter, and know what else is being presented that evening, as others have talks on different topics that I can study and prepare for that will hopefully add to the entire meeting that evening. If I can study and cover the material with thought to keeping good audience eye contact, I will do well.
Have any of you had speaking engagements with similar circumstances, and how was your talk received by the audience?
I truthfully believe that this is because life has plenty of distractions that prevent us from seeing people and places as they exist.
Here on BaM, we often discuss ideas or certain physical objects in terms of ideas that convey meaning to a discussion. The actual fact is that in cyberspace, we are afforded a certain amount of anonymity that allows us to not entirely be truthful about ourselves. One reason we are this way is because in cyberspace, we often post ideas for all to read, which doesn't allow us to protect ourselves from those who might take advantage of such posts.
I began this post as describing as a need to have my vision checked. The next time you want to see how a person feels inside, one may only need to look a person in the eyes or face and read his expressions or reactions.
Personally, I am often distracted by music or real life situations that don't involve eye contact. One can't tell what a person is feeling if one doesn't have a view of the person.
That being said, in 5 weeks time, the last week of December, I have a speaking engagement where my study point is "visual contact with the audience." I am to speak from an outline, contemporaneously, to an audience, taking into account how the audience receives the speech. If I have prepared my talk well enough, I should be confident enough to present a talk that covers the discussion material, and motivates the audience to action. I have 5 minutes to do this.
This is the 2nd time I have been required to publicly cover material for our discussions, but it is the first time where I must do so from a larger body of written resource material. It is both exciting and challenging to be able to present this, much like a chef prepares a 5-course meal at an expensive restaurant. Not wanting to overdo things, I must remember to be conversational, accurate, and non-condescending to the audience.
Because the resource material is from the last chapter of one of our study publications, I am unsure of how to tie in the previous chapters of the book, and still motivate the audience in 5 minutes. I may not need to tie things from earlier in the book into the discussion, but merely show the importance of what we are concluding in the book, and how we benefit from it. That in itself may motivate the audience and reach the audience's heart, the seat of motivation. The key to being able to reach an audience is to ask questions of the written material, and provide answers to those questions after individual questions have allowed the audience to reason for themselves.
First thing I have to do is read the last chapter, and know what else is being presented that evening, as others have talks on different topics that I can study and prepare for that will hopefully add to the entire meeting that evening. If I can study and cover the material with thought to keeping good audience eye contact, I will do well.
Have any of you had speaking engagements with similar circumstances, and how was your talk received by the audience?