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Toastmasters Speech 9 – Persuade with Power
For the last few months (ever since I joined ISB to be precise), I have been an active Toastmasters member on campus. Toastmasters is an international organization that allows people to improve their public speaking skills. They have a bunch of projects that help people do this in an organized manner.
I have a bunch of filmed videos, and thought I would start sharing them on my blog.
This one is my most recent, the CC9, whose topic is “Persuade with Power“. The aim is to convince your audience to adopt your viewpoint on a certain topic of your choice.
In this speech, I take up the argument that come what may, Everything will work out. The darkest of nights usually have a dawn following them. And so I provide two examples from my life when I have found this to be true.
Let me know what people think, and how I could have improved it further!
I’ll share some of my more humorous speeches after this.
Micro update
Considering I am visiting and working from Poland this week, I didn’t have time to get out a well thought out (read : flameworthy) article. Instead, I leave you with the following two tidbits.
One, I added my second ficlet to the Fiction part of my site. Titled 5 minutes, its a short story (around 2000 words, if I remember correctly) set in a fantasy / action genre. Written to see if I could write a story in second person point of view. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Two, I recently blogged about JS Test Driver and how awesome it was. Well, pictures do not do it justice, and Alex recently recorded a video demonstrating JS Test Driver and how it could possibly be used for Test Driving your javascript code. Give it a look, its pretty awesome, and shows you how awesome the Eclipse integration (my plugin, that is 
) is and just how blazing fast the test runner is.
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