Wednesday, May 25, 2022

20 Excellent brief YouTube videos from Patrick Barry on poise, rhythm, optimism, being dynamic, and the unexpected


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my previous post I discussed Does your speech have ‘legs’? Erik Palmer’s PVLEGS is a checklist for evaluating speaking by public school students. In that acronym P stands for poise, so I next looked for videos on that topic. 

 

Patrick Barry teaches at the University of Michigan Law School. He has a public speaking series with twenty YouTube videos on the five topics of Poise, Rhythm, Optimism, Dynamic, and the Unexpected. They are not linked together in a coherent way, but I searched them out and organized them. (He also has a lot of videos about writing, which I will discuss later).  

 

There are a half-dozen about POISE in speaking from the Good with Words workshop series posted on March 30, 2018. Those total to just over 12 minutes:

 

Poise: build in pauses (2:34)

 

Poise: oxygen should be a part of your presentation (2:48)

 

Poise: you don’t win points for saying the most words (1:09)

 

Poise: interpersonal skills (2:10)

 

Poise: the virtue of clarity (1:09)

 

Poise: charisma (2:20)

 

 

There are seven more on RHYTHM:

 

Rhythm: rhetorical repetition (anaphora and epistrophe)(2:14)

 

Rhythm: that’s slavery (1:41)

 

Rhythm: parallel structure (“safe place. Real support.”)(2:44)

 

Rhythm: structure, specifics, stakes (0:41)

 

Rhythm: the rule of three (4:06)

 

Rhythm: constraints can be freeing (1:20)

 

Rhythm: order out of chaos (1:00)

 

 

There are three on OPTIMISM:

 

Optimism: smile more than you think appropriate (1:55)

 

Optimism: the smile of someone who has something to share(0:54)

 

Optimism: informed hope and entrepreneurs of ideas (2:16)

 

 

There are two on being DYNAMIC:

 

Dynamic: your mouth should not be the only thing that moves(3:23)

 

Dynamic: a bad presentation with good technology is still abad presentation (1:01)

 

 

And finally, there are two on the UNEXPECTED:

 

Unexpected: be surprising in a convincing way (2:28)

 

Unexpected: include a little mischief (1:32)

 


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