“I stood up to speak and forgot what I wanted to say!” Don’t let the Blank Brain Boogeyman steal your words.
He lurks in the shadows of your mind but never shows his face when you’re relaxed. Still you know he’s there, hiding, biding his time, waiting for the perfect moment to pounce. At times when confidence is high, you wonder whether he exists at all; maybe...
I have a dream – An analysis of the greatest speech almost never given
“Tell ’em about the dream, Martin” – Mahalia Jackson It was a perfect speech. Almost every technique in the book was used, from anaphora (repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis), to references to the Bible and Shakespeare. It was delivered to an...
How to be funny in a speech (when you’re not that funny in real life).
According to a Hertfordshire University study, this is the funniest joke in the world. “Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the...