Mark Carney: belief

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…If someone comes up to you younger, and they say, “I would like to learn how to give good speeches. How did you learn how to give good speeches?” What do you study? Which speakers? Do you go to YouTube? What do you do? I didn’t have YouTube when I was — it wasn’t widely available when I was learning how to give speeches. One thing I would say is that you need to go over them multiple times. You need to give the speech in order to understand how — practice giving the speech, and then that reveals things that you can pull in or sentences which are too complicated, that which won’t be well understood. Have stories, have things that illustrate your deeper point. I, as a central banker — and maybe you’re asking a general question, but as a central banker, put the substance as much as possible into footnotes, so you’re well grounded in terms of your argument but it’s not cluttering the argument and losing your audience. I think the last point I’d make, and hopefully this isn’t the case on this conversation, but if you lose your audience, you’ve lost them. You don’t get them back while you’re giving the speech, and so it’s crucial to keep the pacing and the insights spread so that you’re retaining your audience. Who as a speaker has influenced you?…

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