I love speaking.

I love speaking. public speaking. conversational speaking. whatever.


...and is it weird that ever since taking this class, I find myself unintentionally using rhetoric and the skills we've learned ALL THE TIME when I speak? Anytime I'm trying to persuade someone to do something or go somewhere, or agree with what I'm saying. . . BOOM RHETORICAL SKILLS!

Yesterday for example, I was talking to some of my girls on my floor in Deatrick, trying to convince them to live here again. I gave them all the pros and cons. . . Kierkagaard would have been disappointed though. He's all about "practicing what you preach" and whatnot. Here I am, trying to convince these girls that Deatrick is the place to live again, when I myself am not even living here next year. I'm so over dorm life and want my own apartment. Ooooops, sorry Kierkagaard.

I also find that I am a lot like a TV advertisement. When I speak, or when Im' trying to persuade someone to something, I only give them the positives of the situation. Never the negatives. I definitely do it intentionally. Who wants to share the bad, when you're so focused on the good. I kind of remind myself of those videos we watched in class one day. The first was about the natural, home grown-type farm, and the second was about the company that chemically engineers corn. I am totally that commercial. I also talk about the positives and great things of whatever I'm trying to push for, but hide, or "sugar coat" the negative effects. I'm not really proud of this trait. I think I talked about in an earlier post how a "good" orator should be able to still convince his audience he is right even after presenting both sides of an argument.


Future career in advertising?