Joyful Public Speaking (from fear to joy)

Saturday, November 22, 2025

If you only have a hammer, then everything looks like a nail

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                                                                                        The Savage Chickens cartoon for...
Friday, November 21, 2025

What if a commencement speech told you to assume the worst?

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                                                         There is a brief and humorous book from 2018 by Carl Hiassen ti...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Celebrating a joyful milestone of 3000 blog posts

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                    I just passed a joyful milestone - 3000 blog posts. My first pair of posts were over eighteen years a...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Small acts of joy bring big gains in happiness

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                              There is an interesting brief article by Darwin A. Guevarra, Xuhai ‘Orson” Xu, and Emilian...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Two good recent articles about opening a speech

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                                                   There are two good, brief articles about opening a speech from earlier...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Finding joy at work

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                There are some long, excellent publications about finding joy at work. For example, there is a 42-page pd...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Aphantasia means not having a mind’s eye

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                          Via interlibrary loan from the Twin Falls Public Library I got and have been reading a 2025 bo...
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Richard I. Garber
This blog is about public speaking. The author is Richard I. Garber, ACS, a Toastmaster. From July 2008 to June 2010 he was Vice President-Education for Capitol Club Toastmasters in Boise, Idaho. From July 2017 to June 2019 he was Vice President Public Realtions for Saint Al's Toastmasters. Opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author alone, and are not the official positions of Toastmasters International, etc. Richard is retired. He has over twenty years of experience as a consultant on failure analysis (figuring out why things busted or rusted) and a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science. His email is r_i_garber at hotmail.com
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