PublicSpeaking 101

summary of major points and takeaways of a topic

What is this topic?
1. Public speaking is the scaled transfer of an idea. While a conversation is a 1-to-1 data transfer, public speaking is a 1-to-Many synchronization. It is the "User Interface" (UI) for your thoughts—it is how the world "sees" and "interacts" with your intelligence.
2. Public speaking is the art of communication. It is the ability to tell your thoughts in a way that others understand, or for a specific purpose. This could be to persuade someone, tell a funny story, or inform them about a topic.
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What are the first principles?
1. the fundamental truths that are true: a cook vs a chef:
  1. a cook follows a recipe (reasoning by analogy) but gets stuck if they do not have an ingredient
  2. a chef understands the chemistry of flavors, knowing why an ingredient is added and can substitute the ingredient for something else following the same use

started in Ancient Greece (a direct democracy) where if you couldn't speak, you couldn't lead
1. Aristotle: established the three pillars of persuasion (ethos, pathos, logos)
2. Sophist: teachers paid to teach young men how to win arguments
3. Romans: took Greek ideas, making them practical. (Cicero believed a great speaker must be a good man speaking well, creating the idea that character is part of the speech)

the Middle Ages: public speaking was 1/3 of the core curriculum
1. Grammar
2. Logic
3. Rhetoric
Industrial Shift: education became about writing and testing, not speaking
Modern: school education mainly focuses on writing, not presenting (except for select classes)