Anyway, on the post number 1!
I present eloquence.
Now, many many times, especially in college, we've gone through what makes a good presentation. Sure, all those factors really are applicable but I would like to present a side that all these lectures don't normally cover. Now the guy above is John Piper, a preacher that was well-known for delivering captivating sermons. At the end of one of his sermons, he shared about eloquence and the benefits that utilizing it can have.:
1. Eloquence—that is, artistic, surprising, provocative, or aesthetically pleasing language—may keep people awake and focused because they find it interesting for reasons they can’t articulate.
2. Eloquence may bring an adversarial mind into greater sympathy with the speaker.
3. Eloquence may have an awakening effect on a person’s heart and mind short of regeneration, but still important in awakening in them emotional sensitivity to beautiful things.
4. Certain kinds of eloquence (cadence, parallelism, meter, rhyme, assonance, consonance) may not only add interest, but also increase impact by helping the memory.
5. The beauty of eloquence can join with the beauty of truth and increase the power of your words.
But I think that while all the factors above are important, nonetheless, a person can be the most eloquent speaker in the world but if the content of his message is useless then we'd feel like we just wasted a whole long time listening to something worthless. So, I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the content of the speech matters as must as how we present it. The speech itself is not about the jokes we crack, the gestures we make. Haha, perhaps you could apply this next time you have a presentation. =] God bless!
