![]() Strongly, because I know, for one thing, people will lose interest after a H: You can fill in some of what you edited out of the paper. Going to offer you a chance to talk about this idea.” Then you can keep on that way. Maybe after twenty minutes you say, “Now I’m Of it, Steven, as a twenty-minute talk and then provide for opening it up. That’s a much more powerful persuader thanĪnything you could say in an academic way. So the words go right past your brain into your nervous system. And the words will strike you, not in your Steven, is something that’s more like a poem.Īs you know, a poem is a compression, and the words have power. Great Lectures Aim for the Heart, Not the Mind. Cosmic unity how to#That’s what I’m learning to do, how to writeĪ paper, let it expand, and then compress it for the audience. ![]() The talk on Eckhart was about thirty-fiveĬondense a longer talk into this shorter model and compress it. They want them to be about thirty-five minutes. Whitman, Herman Melville, and William Everson. Jeffers, for example, and the talks I’m giving at the Unitarian Church on Walt Where I’ve been speaking and the conferences on Joaquin Miller, and Robinson You can look at anybody who spoke there and see how they organize it, the structure of it. My point is that if I were doing talks these days I’d look at a few of these YouTubes and see how it’s done. The basis is that’s it’s got to be really, really stimulating. So they’ll have people from any area of modern thinking. M: The letters stand for Technology, Entertainment, Design. She talked for eighteen minutes, too, like Bolte-Taylor. Allende, a Chilean writer, wrote books reviewers called “magical realism” -right up our alley, Steven. I’ve seen Bolte-Taylor’s talk and Isabel Allende’s talk. They work with that and work out the bugs until it’s smooth and really goes well. ![]() They make their speakers hone their talks down to eighteen minutes. So you have to pay a lot of money to go there, and you’re not going to want to hear somebody rambling on. ![]() They charge a bundle to attend one of their conferences down around Big Sur, originally, but now annually in Long Beach. TED really works with a speaker to make the presentation compelling. I do want to tell you, also, that if I were giving talks to an audience these days, that the way they’ve set up the TED talks, like that YouTube I sent you of Jill Bolte-Taylor talking about her book My Stroke of Insight is how I’d try to do it. It’s as relevant as if he were a modern thinker. M: I was thinking about your talk at the Unitarian-Universalist Church “Leaving God for God” recently, and I thought, here you are talking about Meister Eckhart ( 1260-1328), who was preaching a little before Geoffrey Chaucer’s time ( 1343-1400), and it’s really relevant to a contemporary audience. Meister Eckhart and the Poetic Foundation of Daily Life ![]()
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