What do people know about you? What don't they know? What are you afraid they'll know?
From personal friends to public followers, people know I'm a Public Speaking Professor and World Traveler. In fact, they know I'm a NATIONAL AWARD WINNING Public Speaking Professor and a 7 CONTINENT 121 Country World Traveler.
Why?
Because most people, including myself, BOLDLY HIGHLIGHT what we think society will proudly accept, applaud, adore, and admire ... and avoid announcing anything that may make others feel ashamed of us. So what if I shared a supposed stigma instead of a strength with all of you? I have bipolar II and major depressive disorder... no wait, I need to bold that.
I HAVE BIPOLAR II and MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER.
It's strange seeing what most would deem a weakness in bold, right?
For 2023, I will teach and travel much less. I will reflect much more. It's not time to seek new life experiences... it's time to share the ones I've already been blessed to have. I've had bipolar II and depression since I was 19.
Without it, I'm not a public speaking professor or world traveler. Simply, without it, there's no me.
*The title is "I Have Mental Illness", not "I Suffer From" or "I Struggle With".
If you like to find out more, here are the links to hear in audio or watch on video.
Thank you for reading this, I feel free. I am finally free. I like to end this piece from the way I started it.
What do people know about you? What don't they know? What are you afraid they'll know?
John D. Lin January 21, 2023 6:57AM
Happy Lunar New Year Everyone
Want to improve your public speaking? Want to speak with greater confidence about any topic? Listen no further!
Not only do we rant about NBA Superstar Kevin Durant ruining basketball, we also provide you with public speaking tips on how to do it!
Have a listen and share your thoughts!
JDL
@johndlinspeaks on IG
Do you hate not knowing what someone will ask you? Of course you do.
You like to prepare what to say in advance because you hate being asked something in public and saying, "OMG IDK what to say..."
You will always be asked 2 questions, forever, no matter who you are and where you are.
1. Do you like what you do?
2. How do you know you will like this answer later on?
Share your thoughts. Make a 60 second video and write a paragraph.
This podcast is made and should be listened to after speech battle 1 introducing your partner.
IMPORTANCE OF VIDEO COMMUNICATION!
1. What's the difference between presenting yourself on video Vs. in person?
It's not going away. Before pandemic less than 1 in 10 people worked from home permanently, at 7%. Just one year into the pandemic that rose to MORE than 1 and 4 people, at 26%! We are now past year two now, that 26 will most likely continue to go up. Walk around your neighborhoods -are your strip malls closing with storefront vacancies? Are there less mom and pop brick and mortar shops? Are there an increasing number of machines and decreasing number of clerks and cashiers at the stores?
2. Video presentation -eye level, background, attire, light -get the basics right.
3. Would you hire someone with a resume: handwritten in pen, on loose-leaf, crumpled, with white-out, cross outs, typos, ink-marks, wEiRd caPs? This ties in with #2, why would someone hire a candidate metaphorically with the same level of presentation on camera? APPEARANCE MATTERS first above content.
Share your thoughts via a 60 second video and brief paragraph.
Thanks everyone, especially Pharmacy for listening.
*This podcast is available for the world to hear -without vulnerability there can no human connection. Without potential for criticism, there can be no love.
*All podcasts are unadulterated, unedited, unfiltered - one take no matter what.
By now you see the limitations, frustrations, lamentations of writing up and memorizing your speeches. It doesn't make you much of a better speaker in real life. But what does it mean to be "good" at speaking? What does it mean to be "good" at guitar? This podcast challenges you to re-evaluate how you evaluate yourself in regards to your grades, your speech, and your thoughts on love. WOW
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*Guitar -Really good?
*Someone you love
*Grades, Number Scales Signify Nothing-Something, not everything
*What's the point of love if....
Share your thoughts! Thanks, JDL~!
*This podcast is available for the world to hear -without vulnerability there can no human connection. Without potential for criticism, there can be no love.
*All podcasts are unadulterated, unedited, unfiltered - one take no matter what.
Here are my extemporaneous key word bullet points symbols only outline
Intro - (1 minute) *, 12:33AM, Preparation -Paper Vs. Presentation
Specific Purpose - Guitar Metaphor for Speaking
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BODY
MP1 - *PPPPPPPP (People Perform Pressure Paid Profoundly, Private, Practice, Personal, Professional)
MP2 - Buffet/Cooking
MP3 - EEE - Enjoy, Enthusiasm, (Effort -Forgot it, oh well), Excellence
MP4 - Prove! If Best, are you okay?
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Conclusion (1 minute) - Ask yourself. Any Filler words?
Share your thoughts! Thanks, JDL~!
All podcast are in extemporaneous/impromptu format -
On the first episode of class, I don't say a single verbal word. All I do is type, type, type, no matter what. Here's why! Here are my extemporaneous bullet points to make this 10 minute podcast.
*John B. Greg -Where is the audience now? Do they even care?
*P.S. isn't adversarial
*Texting 94 day, ~35,000 year >>> 9 trillion year, 45% US
*Phone Calls -How really are you
*Type at 40WPM, Talk at 12-WPM, 3x faster!
*Comfort vs. Confidence (Copy cat vs. Only You)
*Would you hire a babysitter if you never saw or heard them?
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*Did you catch any fillers, if so let me know for bonus!
*Share your thoughts relating to your experience personally and professionally.
This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available.
All podcast are in extemporaneous/impromptu format
On the first episode of class, many students already think I am "weird". Conventional expectations both in classroom and in social contexts are broken for the first time and perhaps only time in their lifetime. Why would I do this? Here are my extemporaneous bullet points to make this 10 minute podcast.
*Number of teachers in a student's lifetime
*New, Different, Unique, Weird... Oh no!
* CONFIDENCE - muscles, makeup, money, marketing marks-grades (triple alliteration x5 M)
*Judgment from others
*Do you want to be remembered?
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*Did you catch any fillers, if so let me know for bonus!
*Share your thoughts relating to your experience personally and professionally.
Hello Pharmacists of the Future World,
Below are my "Extemporaneous" notes I referred to when preparing this 18 minute spoken podcast. Notice it's just "KWBPSO", key words bullet points symbols only. Why not manuscript/memorized manuscript? Well...you decide.
An average speaking pace is 150 words per minute, multiplied by 18, I may have spoken (using calculator), 2,700 words! Can you imagine I typed that (Manuscript)!
The average person can type 40 words per minute, that would take me (calculator app again :)) 2,700/40, 67.5 minutes to type! This does not include the time I have to think about what to write by the way, let's say it took me 30 minutes to brain storm that up.
Then time to learn every word in order, who knows how long, let's be kind, super duper kind, and say 2 hours, that's 120 minutes? (Memorized Manuscript) The average non-double spaced novel contains 500 words...that is over 5 pages I need to memorize!
Total time invested for your 18 minute talk - 30 brainstorm + 67.5 type + 120 memorize = 210.5 minutes (3 hours, 30 minutes, 30 seconds)
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*It's not at all inconceivable that as a pharmacy manager you will need to brief your staff for 18 minutes straight. You may need to do this every day, do you have 3:30:30 to spare? Some may say, I can skip the memorizing part, but if you read word for word from a paper, will people sit there and listen attentively until you finish -why not just hand it out to them? What happens if you lose the paper, or forgot your glasses (contact lens dried up, the worse! or even worse in a hurry you put it on backwards!) Or worse, what if what you wrote and memorized changed? There are new protocols during CoVid-19 that can come in every morning. What you wrote and want to read from yesterday is no longer applicable, you need to adjust to the moment.
*Most importantly, even if you spent these 3:30:30 hours, all you did was prepare what you are going to say/planning to say.
How much time was devoted to actually practicing speaking? That's correct, 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds! Add in that time, and an 18 minute daily briefing becomes your unpaid fulltime job. Yay! :)
*Likewise, try and avoid the impromptu speech for this too -what you have to say is probably important, otherwise why have a meeting or debriefing when people are working.
Without further ado, my extemporaneous notes.
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A. Welcome > Asynchronous? Never! > UN: adultered, filtered, rehearsed
B. Me/Course (interpersonal)
C. 1st Assignment - Music > Future assignments (DONE at 18)
To my former public speaking students who have grown to become two outstanding young men:
You lost your mother just a few days ago. You called just a day later to tell me while I was riding the LIRR back home. Home. You all invited me into your home. It was not only a space, it was certainly more than a house, it was HOME filled with love, pride, and joy. The type of home any mother dreams to share of sharing with her wonderful sons -the two of you.
I spoke this podcast live during my public speaking class one hour ago. We meet on zoom always - I may never meet them and they may never meet me in person. However, in terms of meeting someone, I did have the privilege to meet both of you. That was only possible because of your beloved mother.
It was like a fairytale dream to work with the both of you. I can't say I came to teach you, because you taught me just the same. I just entered my first year of professing, looking back I was so young, even younger than the both of you now, and still you're both so young. You will always be so young to me.
Growing up I had 42 older cousins and an older sister. As the "baby" of my entire family, I always wanted a little brother in some way. To in anyway, be like my cousin Howard was to me, to someone else. You both became that to me.
I'll end on one final memory I had in my childhood about being young in the eyes of a mother.
It was my first year of college, the same age you were when we met. It was any normal day at 5PM and my mom didn't come home from work yet. My grandmother just kept staring out the window saying it' past 430, where is your mom? "Grandma, why are you worrying. Mom is a 50 year old grown woman, she'll be home soon enough." Grandma looked up, smiled a shy but happy smile and said, "She may be a 50 year old grown mom to you...but to me she's always my only daughter."
To the two of you, you will always be the sons of your beloved mother and your father. And to your older brother, who I only had the privilege of meeting once during your Valedictorian speech, my thoughts are with you as well. Every time she spoke of you, I could hear the love she had for you too.
I will now return on the LIRR to meet all of you in the city, carrying my cousin Howard's love and support with me.
With sincerest gratitude and love,
John D. Lin
0ctober 14, 2021 11:59AM EST
Sample Filled Outline (Here is a sample of how one looks like filled out) *Extemporaneous Speaking
Speech Battle 1 -Introduction Speech Outline
Your name: Robin
Partner name: Super Man
Title of your speech: Behind the Cape
Attention Grabber (AG) - Mystery
Specific Purpose (SP) - Introduce Super Man, aka Clark Kent
Main Point 1 (MP1) (Primary) - Kansas - childhood experience, foster parents, meteor landing
Main Point 2 (MP2) - Special Powers - flight, strength, x-ray vision
Main Point 3 (MP3) (Recency) - Loise Lane -real kryptonite, love of life, news reporter
Quick Review (QR) - Complicated Man
Unforgettable Ending (UE) - Superpowers?
Triple Rhyme (TR) - FLY, HIGH, GOODBYE
Triple Alliteration (TA) - LONG LASTING LOVE
Dramatic Pause (DP) - Planet of....Krypton
1. I get nervous speaking in front of large groups.
2. I get nervous and my heart is racing
3. I get on rambling and rambling on.
Ever feel this way and want to stop?
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