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Journal by The Mighty Buzzard
Something I've been thinking about a bit lately is the ability to communicate your message well. I'm not the best at it but it's not difficult to spot those who really are. Their number sure as fuck doesn't include Jordan Peterson. Or most any intellectual, especially with an academia background, for that matter.
You know who the best are? Really good standup comedians. They have to be. If you need to explain a joke, it's no longer funny. If you're consistently not funny, you have to get a dreaded day job.
If you want to take up public speaking in any sort of persuasive capacity, you could do a lot worse than to learn from them.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday March 17 2019, @03:46AM
No, as a general rule they're complete shit at it. At best they can impart the message they're trying to convey eventually but very few of them excel at imparting it to a wide audience or with any particular efficiency. They have the luxury of having an audience that has self-selected to be there and has to take the consequences for their failure rather than the egghead in question having to do it themselves. That does not push communication skills worth a damn, thus very little growth in ability happens.
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