connection and curiosity much more easily than oration. That conversational tone is even more important when you watch a talk online. There you’re a single person looking at a screen, and you want the speaker to address you as such. Talks that are orated to a large crowd rarely go viral. Some speakers fall into a trap here. In the thrill of being on stage, they get caught up in a slightly too grandiose sense of the occasion and begin unconsciously embracing a form of oration. They slow down their pace. They speak a little too loudly. And they insert dramatic pauses between sentences. This is
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