Improved presentation
One of the more important lessons I remember from high school is that it is not what you say but how you say it. Consider sitting in English class while you study a play by Shakespeare. Good material but if you remember any one person you had better classmates than I. We were all less than mediocre. I bring this up because I’ve been listening to different podcasts and there are some outstanding presentations if you take the time to seek them out. One of my favourites is a broadcaster with more than four decades of experience. Someone who has been writing his own material on a daily basis for all that time. And it shows. He can take something as mundane as a report on a baseball game and turn it into virtual poetry. Not the material but the presentation. I wish I had those chops. Keeping my attention for almost an hour is outstanding. Proof that the material is robust. But it is the presentation that draws me back. We have not had a great politician in this country for decades. Seriously we have a Prime Minister with a background in public speaking and drama who can lose my attention within seconds. The reason why we remember political speeches is because the mixture of presentation and material brings things to a whole new level. Churchill was never part of my life but I will stop and listen if he comes on a broadcast. A ghost from back when public speaking actually mattered. I was listening to our current provincial Prime Minister this week. About as memorable as the last bag of potato chips. And he prides himself as being a public speaker. How sad. Oh well. Still raining. Doing another reset on winter.
