Telling your Story: Speaking for Non-Speakers
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Claim: stories beat scripts — rehearse only your opening lines, not a full script, and use slides as images and cues rather than text. Concrete tips include one minute per slide, stash code on GitHub instead of forcing readable slides, and prefer meetups or Toastmasters for practice. Real outcomes: a 15‑minute slot collapses into five when overrehearsed, a failed demo plus dead laptop becomes a successful talk when the story carries it, and a 54 slides in 30 minutes pace is practical. Use Haiku Deck for visuals.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Telling your story
- 1:26Academic talks fail speakers
- 2:50First Paris talk
- 4:58Rehearsing naturally
- 7:04Slides to support story
- 9:09Fear of forgetting lines
- 12:42Disaster recovery
- 17:23Audience as partners
- 19:50Stories versus instructions
- 21:58Q&A and meetups
