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08-15-2008, 03:24 PM
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Anyone ever have something to say planned out, and then when it came time to say it you improvised something else on the spot?
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08-15-2008, 03:26 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | No.
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08-15-2008, 03:26 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: So Cal | | whenever i have presentations for school i spend all this time writing out what i want to say and then when i get up there i shove them in my pocket and just talk  |
08-15-2008, 03:33 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Jacksonville, Florida | | | During certain speeches I tend to do it. Most of the time it comes out even better than planned. That means that planning and outlining really helps you improvise. |
08-15-2008, 03:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Boston | | | I do it quite frequently, so what I've wound up doing lately is writing an outline on an index card and just going up to the podium with that.
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08-15-2008, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Liist  During certain speeches I tend to do it. Most of the time it comes out even better than planned. That means that planning and outlining really helps you improvise. | Yessir, I get that too. When it comes to presentations, I get a pretty good idea what I'm going to say, but when I really get into it, I speak without thinking and usually turns out pretty nicely.
Improv sure beats stuttering.
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08-15-2008, 04:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: St. John's, NL | | | in my first semester at college we had a course were part of it was the prof would give us a random topic, then we would have 2 mins to think about it. After that we would have 10 mins in front of the class talking about it.
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08-15-2008, 04:59 PM
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Owner/Builder: Regenerate Guitar Works | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Upper Left Corner (Seattle) | | I'm a know the subject in detail and depth, draft a loose outline and embellish any specific thoughts, transcribe specific quotes and sources ... and then let it roll kinda speaker myself.
For instances where it's more of a direct conversation with new clients, I found this article captured nicely what I had unknowingly been doing for years Quote:
There's no getting around it. We live in an unscripted world. You can rehearse in front of a mirror till the cows come home -- for that job interview, for that meeting where you're expected to speak, for the moment when you finally walk up to that very attractive guy at the gym and introduce yourself. But the minute there's another person involved, the script goes out the window. If you mean to make an impression, you have to be able to think on your feet, hurl yourself into the moment, and improvise.
How? Well, obviously, some people are simply naturals. To help the rest of us develop some techniques, I turned to the professionals.
| full article here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/08/12...eet/index.html
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08-15-2008, 05:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: an ignore list near you | | | Some subjects I know will come out better unrehearsed. My "But I thought you liked chloroform" speech sounds cheesy and rehearsed if I put too much thought into it.
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08-15-2008, 05:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Boca Raton, Florida | | | All the time. I usually know the material I am going to present. I just keep an outline of what I want to say and keep with in certain time frame.
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08-15-2008, 06:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | I never plan out anything I'm going to say  |
08-16-2008, 07:14 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cincinnati | | | yup.... all the time. I'm a teacher and I plan what I'm going to say in class, and then, when I see the students I end up presenting the same stuff, but in a different way. Usually its better. And I usually end up doing the same presentation 10-14 times. In the end the talk is short and better, more efficent.
My bass solos are like that too.
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08-16-2008, 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by BassChuck yup.... all the time. I'm a teacher and I plan what I'm going to say in class, and then, when I see the students I end up presenting the same stuff, but in a different way. Usually its better. And I usually end up doing the same presentation 10-14 times. In the end the talk is short and better, more efficent. | Sometimes I will get tasked to teach a class for our Thursday Sergeants Time Training, and I usually do minimal study and figure out what I'm going to say while the class is going on. Whenever we do the AAR (After Action Review) at the end of class, I never get any complaints though, so something is working well. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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