Your Speech Is Packed With Misunderstood, Unconscious Messages - Facts So Romantic
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Imagine standing up to give a speech in front of a critical audience. As you do your best to wax eloquent, someone in the room uses a clicker to conspicuously count your every stumble, hesitation, um and uh; once you’ve finished, this person loudly announces how many of these blemishes have marred your presentation.If disfluencies appear to generally help communication more than they hinder it, why are they so stigmatized?Photograph by Sean Lamb / FlickrThis is exactly the tactic used by the Toastmasters public-speaking club, in which a designated “Ah Counter” is charged with tallying up the speaker’s slip-ups as part of the training regimen. The goal is total eradication. The club’s punitive measures may be extreme, but they reflect the folk wisdom that ums and uhs betray a speaker as (...)