Alex Xie

Great speech! You greatly reduced your filling words! Suggestions would be trying to act like an actor or animation figure some time. This is exactly the same thing I got from Tasha for my vocal variety speech

Body language

In what ways can body language express emotion? Why is eye contact with your audience an important part of your speech? How can facial expressions enhance the content of your message? Why is too much body movement distracting for an audience? Why is it important to be aware of cultural differences in the use of body language?

Body language is the nonverbal expression of emotions, feelings, and ideas. Your posture, movement, position, gestures, eye contact, and facial expressions all contribute to the message you send when you speak. Your body language can enhance your communication or undermine your message.

posture, stance, position, movement

descriptive gesture emphatic gesture suggestive gesture
prompting gesture

How do I stay sane in this over-abundant world

Hello fellow toastmasters, today we are gonna talk about sanity and over-abundance.

Raise your hand if you feel overwhelmed by excessive notification everyday, raise your hand if your todo list keeps piling up, how about read later list? And checkout list etc etc. I see some hands there. Trust me, you’re not alone, this is a common problems, and we all go through them together.

The [[frustration]] of not able to get things done, the [[ temptation ]] of checking what’s going on out there in internet, or how my friends doing in social media.

Here 3 tips I’d like to share today, 1. Be selective 2. Do things thematically 3. Letting them go.

Be selective

First, be selective, by treating things different in priority and time. For example, most content we consume everyday they’re just news, and they’re most probably one-sided arguments, before dust settle down, they all subjected to change. I subscribed lots of newsletter in email and lots of channel in Youtube, I try to read news in fast speed, most just skimming, grabbing the headline and keywords. If there are infomation I missed, that’s fine, they would come back to my ears in another way most probably. Same applies to videos or podcast, I usually do fast speed 1.5x or even 2x. This makes my information consuming way more intense and fulfilling, ofc it takes some practice in order to make you feel well.

Do things thematically

For those timeless knowledge and insight, I’ve got more time to consume them carefully, thoroughly and repeatedly. I’ve been trying to build my own personal knowledge management system, aka “second brain”, I dump all those resources I need to review and explore inside by tagging.

This leads to my 2nd tips, do thing thematically. Whenever I want to learn something, I try to pull multiple resources either on internet or from my second brain, books, blog posts, videos from multiple people, most of the time their ideas are quite similar, if not the same, ofc there are a lot of nuance, and different interpretation, that’s the fun part, I can compare them back and forth, I found this way to learn is way easier, I can read way faster, I can understand way deeper.

Letting it go

The last one is letting it go. There is no shortcut for achieving anything meaningful or worth persuing. You can’t get ripped without working out everyday, you can’t get rich without working your tail off, you can

Infatuation

get ripped stock market guru Any sports

FOMO

let the desire go, let the unrealist infatuation go.

Don’t fall to the consumerism trap,

There is no shortcut,

No breaking news, the sky is not falling, no need to be connected 24/7