Round Two – Fight! Here are three quotes from Bruce Lee, with my own practical applications for speaking: “Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”Meet people, use the internet, find and listen to the most useful voices out there. “I always learn something, and that is: to […]
The Kung Fu of Presentation, Part Two: Learning Read More »
Martial arts philosophy and my public speaking philosophy have huge parallels, which you will see from the rest of my blog: Adaptability (see my post ‘Be Like Water’). Flow, with unconscious competence (see my post ‘Kung Fu Candour’). Going on-stage can be a form of combat, where – and this may seem deep, but you’re
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Did you read about that pyschic dwarf who escaped from prison? The headline read “Small Medium at Large”. Now, it may have raised nothing more from you than a smile, but I really like that joke, because: It’s short. It requires the listener to think. Everyone I’ve told it to likes it. Now hold on
Here’s a great philosophy for improving your performance and rate of new material generation. The slightly dubious-sounding title of this post is a body-building technique, where you do small sets of exercises (e.g. pull-ups) on a piece of exercise equipment that you pass several times a day, such as your hallway. It allows you build
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Please don’t bullsh*t when you’re speaking in front of a group. Please. One of the key things stand-up taught me was to see through all the nonsense, whether it’s from advertising (a rich, if over-used, vein of material for stand-ups), the news or the government. And if someone’s trying to be impressive in a presentation
