karen thompson walker speech comaprison
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TED Talks Karen Thompson Walker
What fear can teach us
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Karen Thompson Walker delivering her speech on “What fear can teach us”.
Her idea is based on comparing fear and storytelling and their similarities.
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Capturing the Audience
She begins with a story , a true story. A ship called the Essex, wrecked by a sperm whale, leaving the crew with only 3 options to survive. They must decide where they will sail to.
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Karen’s speech of fear, revolves around the shipwreck story, the decisions that lead to their misfortune and how fear drove them to making the wrong decisions.
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Ted Commandment IVThou shalt tell a story
Karen, tells a story that leaves you in suspense. You listen to see what happens next.
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Dynamism
I rated her 2 stars, because although it was interesting history, I felt maybe some more enthusiasm could have been used.
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Interesting quote
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Looking down a lot to her speech.
• Karen should have spent more time rehearsing and memorizing her speech.
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Telling a story can be interesting, intriguing and suspenseful. Combining a great story and great idea with a great speech , will ensure your audience will want to hear what you say.
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Using History to reinforce your ideas, prove effective when presenting factual evidence .
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Karen Thompson Walker Sir Ken Robinson
Who is the better presenter?
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Sir Ken Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson had a way of using comedic one liners that would make you laugh, combined by his dynamic story telling was impressive
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Karen Thompson Walker
Karen’s story was interesting, but lacked in her delivery. Her idea was relatable to the story, but I felt if it wasn’t for that story her speech would have failed.
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Advice
Prepare your speech, practice your speech, memorize your speech.
Face your fear head on and just do it.
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Citations
• Slide 2 - http://tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/tg12_22961_d32_4700.jpg?w=530&h=345, • Slide 3 - http
://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5xdhMq_h17s/UIEyJXIHtqI/AAAAAAAABXc/VZBLXBz7ijo/s1600/804577607_6168f20b32.jpg
• Slide 4 – http://cdnl.complex.com/m.php/CHANNEL_IMAGES/POP_CULTURE/2012/11/25-most-important-full-frontal-nude-scenes-movies/cannibal_holocaust_400275.jpg,http://www.riapress.com/riapress/imgstorebooksframed/cachalot5.jpg,
• Slide 5 - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Pacific-Ocean-Pitcairn-Island-on-globe-view-English.jpg,
• Slide 6- http://michelawalters.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/2-out-of-5-stars.jpg, • Slide 7 -http://www.communityorganizer20.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/storytelling-quote.jpg,• Slide 8 – Screen Capture - http://tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/tg12_22961_d32_4700.jpg?w=530&h=
345,• Slide 9 - http://www.taroticallyspeaking.com/wp-content/gallery/storytelling/skills-cover4.gif,• Slide 10 -
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I1FJP4mlhuI/TMYhtGLdjwI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/6rKAOSoJdU8/s1600/history-id.jpg,• Slide 11,12, - http://images.ted.com/images/ted/172559_389x292.jpg,• Slide 14 - http://blog.namran.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/prepare-and-perform.jpg,