Why thirty seconds is the right length for a speech drill
Most rehearsal advice tells you to run the whole thing, top to bottom. Here is why short, repeated reps beat long, perfect ones every time.
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Notes on speaking, drilling, and the moments that count.
Short essays on practice, performance, and the craft of saying what you mean. From the team behind Oratori.
The seven filler words that cost you the room
Um, like, just, kind of, I think, sort of, basically. A short field guide to the words that quietly hedge your point and how to drill them out.
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Every spoken answer that lands has the same skeleton. Once you can see it, you can write to it, and your standup updates start to take half the time.
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There is a target zone. It is narrower than you think. The cure for talking too fast is rarely 'slow down.' It is breathe and land.
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