Speech Topics: Creating and Breaking the Paradox of Choice
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The document discusses strategies for choosing effective speech topics, focusing on the paradox of choice and methods such as systematic and random searches. It highlights the importance of aligning topics with both audience interests and personal knowledge. The text also includes various examples and conclusions regarding topic selection and pre-crastination.
Speech Topics: Creating and Breaking the Paradox of Choice
- 1. Speech topics: Creating and Breaking the Paradox of Choice. Daniel Sandars ACB ALS Advanced Manual Speaking to Inform Project 4: The Fact-Finding Report 30th November 2016, Cranfield Speakers
- 2. Systematic search: Speech Circles Simon Scriver: The Evolution of a Speech Dubhlinn District 71 11-13 November 2016, Dublin Toastmasters Conference
- 3. Random search: Wikipedia Simon Scriver: The Evolution of a Speech Dubhlinn District 71 11-13 November 2016, Dublin Toastmasters Conference Random Daily Random Features and Trivia
- 4. Choosing your topic Toastmasters International Better Speaker Series: 5 Selecting Your Topic (Item 274)
- 5. Pre-Crastinate “Burn or Burn” Barry Schwartz Paradox of Choice, Harper Perennial 2004 Eyal, N (2016) This Is How to Make Yourself Do What You Need to Do Psychology Today Jan 14th
- 6. Conclusions Searching Systematically Randomly Selecting What does you audience need and care about?, What do you care about? And What do you know? Pre-crastinate “Burn or Burn”
- 7. Thank You
- 8. Example Economics ∩ Comics Bob the Builder never pays wages? Why is Barney always happier than Fred? Are the Smurfs communist? Postman Pat delivers parcels by helicopter, but what happens to the price of stamps?