How to Memorize a Speech
How to Memorize a Speech Giving a good speech is a kind of paradoxical task. On the one hand, nobody likes a reader. If you’re looking down at your notes, or worse, simply reading off the slideshow, you seem unengaged and unprepared. On the other hand, the speech should feel natural. Good speakers sound as if the words just came to them in a conversation, even though they probably practiced it thousands of times. For an interesting dissection of this, consider this analysis of how the comedian Louis C.K. tells a joke . The delivery is so casual that you feel like you’re overhearing him chatting with a friend in a bar. Yet the timing is so perfect you know that he did this dozens, if not hundreds, of times to get it right. That’s the paradox: you need to memorize a speech, without seeming like you memorized it. Fortunately, there’s a method for doing this, that is useful to learn. Should You Even Try To Memorize? Before I jump into the method, I want to addre...










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