What would I have suggested instead? You guessed it—singing. If the scientist were my client, I’d have advised him to take his notes and sing his way through them. When you do, you’ll find yourself discovering interesting ways to emphasize words, you’ll hear them a different way, and you’ll begin to hear the real message shining through. The scientist might have discovered that the essential thing he wanted to communicate was his excitement about ways we can all live longer by eating differently.