Thank you Andapo. I certainly agree with your thought here, it is a hard task to get there on the stage and keep everyone occupied. I hear you about the cheap sense of humour in the name of stand up comedy and even I hate it to the core and I would be with you in running away from such an auditorium at once. One can never underestimate the effort involved in making a stage presence and a talk. It takes a lot more than it appears, it takes years of practice and sometimes the concern for our audience. Though I have loved the stage and been on it, I still feel butterflies in my stomach and each time I go out to talk I realize that there are so many faults I need to work on which makes me appreciate the entire effort and stage presence even more. I have the highest regard for some of these amazing talkers, some which I have witnessed in TED TALKS, some in political debates and some in extempores. It makes me look at them in awe and wonder. I am completely against a cheap attention seeking protagonist. I would stay in a speech only if there is something useful for me at the end of it and if the person occupying the stage doesn’t cater to that, then there is no point in him making the speech at all
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]]>Awesome! It is really nice to know that you follow most of these steps Mayuresh. A 50% plus follow up on these is a great deal indeed. We often recommend just that cos it simply is too difficult to look at a 100% esp on these social behaviors.
I couldn’t agree more mate. Body language and eye contact do make a lot of difference in making people feel more connected and comfortable with us. The more consciously we do it, the better we get at it. A clever mix of that and gestures is bound to take the conversation the right way.
]]>Thank you Gowtham. I agree, eye contact does make a lot of difference, the body language, gestures, eye contacts are very important ways to keep someone glued to a conversation. It makes one feel more connected and more into the conversation or else things get really boring and to a certain extent annoying as well.
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