Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Right to Speak
I have just read the book Right to Speak, again by Patsy Rodenburg, and the first 100 pages are about the influences on the voice and style of speaking. You might think that voice is simple - anything but, and she gives lots of examples and cases. Exercises and advice too in the second half. Buy it for the first half and go onto the second if you feel challenged. Excellent.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Book - highly recommended
Presence by Patsy Rodenburg. Excellent, with lots of insights and exercises and new ways to think about speech and direction of attention. Written for self help.
I couldn't disagree more with her idea of 'energy' which permeats the book but if I substitute 'attention', 'enthusiasm', 'engagement', then it is fine. She has an unrivalled experience of speech coaching all sorts of people. Check out her website.
I have previously recommended the tapes of 'Right to Speak'. She has a nice voice!
Maybe use the book as a framework for self - help groups?
I couldn't disagree more with her idea of 'energy' which permeats the book but if I substitute 'attention', 'enthusiasm', 'engagement', then it is fine. She has an unrivalled experience of speech coaching all sorts of people. Check out her website.
I have previously recommended the tapes of 'Right to Speak'. She has a nice voice!
Maybe use the book as a framework for self - help groups?
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Speech Coach on radio
The first 10 minutes of the In Business program on Leadership gives some excellent insights into how to change the way we speak and the effect that this change in how we use our body can have beneficial effects on our thinking. Top speech coaches give examples of their work. The rest of the prog is also worth listening to.
So, listen again at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20080103.shtml
So, listen again at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20080103.shtml
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Scepticism
Happy New Year.
I posted a comment on http://closetstutterer.blogspot.com/ and Sophie replied that one reason for not pushing the idea of copying others is that it may open prejudice against PWS in some professions. True. But that is not a reason for denying the power of copying or modelling in stammering. The first is social bigotry the second is a possible association with a state of affairs.
If you want to learn some scepticism about Genetics and brain imaging I would recommend The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones. Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty by Gerd Gigerenzer and Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini - particularly his explanation of Captainitis.
In terms of genetics it really is important to go to the original papers and look at the numbers involved and ask yourself if there could be another explanation. Don’t be too impressed by titles or qualifications. Remember that the experimenter cannot be evaluated out of his context: just as a stammer requires a context. Just remembered; The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard Feynman, what science should be about and usually isn’t.
Recently in UK an innocent lady was jailed on the evidence of an expert who wasn’t cross-examined with proper skepticism because he was an expert. The expert who didn’t know his statistics but didn’t know he didn’t know ( Donald Rumsfeldism ) was ultimately vilified. If he was properly challenged the outcome might have been different for all concerned and he would have found out that he didn’t know what he was talking about ie that he didn't know he didn't know.
You should also be sceptical about my notions. Ask yourself if I want you to believe things on my word or if I want you to search your own experience to verify my propositions and do yourself some good. Go back to the territory!
I posted a comment on http://closetstutterer.blogspot.com/ and Sophie replied that one reason for not pushing the idea of copying others is that it may open prejudice against PWS in some professions. True. But that is not a reason for denying the power of copying or modelling in stammering. The first is social bigotry the second is a possible association with a state of affairs.
If you want to learn some scepticism about Genetics and brain imaging I would recommend The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones. Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty by Gerd Gigerenzer and Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini - particularly his explanation of Captainitis.
In terms of genetics it really is important to go to the original papers and look at the numbers involved and ask yourself if there could be another explanation. Don’t be too impressed by titles or qualifications. Remember that the experimenter cannot be evaluated out of his context: just as a stammer requires a context. Just remembered; The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard Feynman, what science should be about and usually isn’t.
Recently in UK an innocent lady was jailed on the evidence of an expert who wasn’t cross-examined with proper skepticism because he was an expert. The expert who didn’t know his statistics but didn’t know he didn’t know ( Donald Rumsfeldism ) was ultimately vilified. If he was properly challenged the outcome might have been different for all concerned and he would have found out that he didn’t know what he was talking about ie that he didn't know he didn't know.
You should also be sceptical about my notions. Ask yourself if I want you to believe things on my word or if I want you to search your own experience to verify my propositions and do yourself some good. Go back to the territory!
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