Saturday, 30 August 2014

Super Card Trick



If you know your audience, you can use your rate of speech to your advantage. The speed of your speech plays a part in how your message is received. Speaking at a comfortable pace with deliberate pauses gives your audience time to digest what they’ve heard. If they like what they hear, that works in your favor. But if the audience is neutral speaking too slowly can lose their attention. Worse, if the audience disagrees with you, speaking slowly gives them time to spot flaws in your argument and to form counterpoints. This must be why Harold Hill in The Music Man talks a mile a minute: “Mothers of River City, heed that warning before it's too late! Watch for the telltale signs of corruption! The minute your son leaves the house, does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like ‘swell’ and ‘so's your old man?’ Well, you got trouble!”

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