Practical_drills_keynote.pdf

Practical drills for aspiring speakers. This talk was given at GraphQL Meetup in Berlin on the 6th of december 2018.

Transcript

1. Practical drills for aspiring speakers Arnab Kumar Datta
2. Arnab
3. Remember him?
4. My goal for this talk Getting you all to do talks in 2019
5. Yes we can!
6. Let’s talk about talking
7. The wishy washy stuff
8. Expectations Most people are “average”,
 by definition.
9. Rejection Accept your awful talks
10. Embrace the process
11. The practical part
 (your turn to shine)
12. Posture
13. Same ****, different wrapping
14. Example: programming Explain it in ten different ways
15. It’s like running a set play in football
16. It’s like following a recipe
17. It’s like getting orders from your parents (might be inaccurate for some of you)
18. Speech rhythm and pacing
19. Homework 
 (because I’m fun)
20. Practice your posture Record yourself until you stop cringing
21. Practice explaining stuff to people
22. Know your material inside out Explore all of the sidetracks so you can be “spontaenous”
23. Practice speech emphasis
24. Network Go to meetups, make friends, ask them for help
25. Thank you Remember to have fun!