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12 Feb 2020 Conversations with Tyler Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics
“I think the people who like to rehearse end up rehearsing too much and being too stiff and not being willing to adapt to circumstances, whereas the people who are happy to improvise don’t rehearse enough, and so their comments are ill formed and ill considered.”
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- 12 Feb 2020
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…What other non-obvious traits do you think predict being good at public speaking? Hmmm. You need to be willing to rehearse and also willing to improvise and make stuff up as you go along. And I think it’s hard for somebody to be willing to do both. I think the people who like to rehearse end up rehearsing too much and being too stiff and not being willing to adapt to circumstances, whereas the people who are happy to improvise don’t rehearse enough, and so their comments are ill formed and ill considered. You need that capacity to do both. You were, at one point, the world’s school persuasive speaking champion. Is that correct?…
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