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- “A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.” - Winston Churchill
- http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
I did debate in college and had a lot of fun with it; in here I'll write out my work-in-progress answers to questions that come to me about topics related to rhetoric, debate, etc.
How to Change Someone
- One important point is that talking to a person may only be one part of changing that person. And it may not be necessary.
- 2014.08.28 - My friend John made a point to me a day or two ago about how he's finding it easier to get his act together now that he's in DC: he said that he's finding his day job really easy, where he can get all his work done in two hours. As opposed to when he was at his last job and he was working really hard, 50 hrs/week. And he said that having all of these little things in order was making it possible for him to improve himself in other ways, like eating vegetarian, and that in turn was helping him with quitting smoking. So the lesson I got from that is that if you want to change thing X about a person, it may be important to first lay the groundwork by changing things A, B, and C. And if changing thing X is difficult with words / rhetoric, you may be able to change things A, B, and C with words / rhetoric.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
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Seneca
http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/ ... rev_e.html
- reading this would make a good YouTube video
Misc
2014.10.04 - How to Pitch Your Startup On-Stage
http://justinkan.com/how-to-pitch-your-startup-on-stage
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