Communication (based on personal experieces)

Many things have been said about communication, about how to make a presentation, about what you have to do in an oral exposition in order to hook your listeners.

I’m not going to write any kind of speech guide (I certain don’t have the knowledge) but after reading advices and have done and assisted to several talks (well, the ones I have done were more like little oral presentations in class) I’m going to tell you about the most important thing that a talk needs, obviously, in my opinion.

Enjoying the talking point seems to me the linchpin. Why do I think this? I’ll tell you the two personal experiences that made me think it.
First.
It was like 8 years ago when I had to do my first English oral project , in a little summer course; never did anything like that before, but, since it was a free topic to talk about, and i have prepared well, I was feeling confident.

I’m not going to say that I enjoyed it, I don’t want to be cynical (come on, it’s an exam; it’s not difficult to imagine things that I rather be doing before an exam), but after have been five minutes talking to the examiner about “The Eclectic variety of music genres you can find on the Beatles discography” I said to myself, “well, I wouldn’t mind been talking for another five minutes, or doing it in front of a bigger audience”

My other enjoy-what-you’re-talking-about experience is as an spectator.

Some friends and I assist to a lecture about European economics. I wasn’t really into the topic, in fact, I only assisted because I knew the speaker, and I knew he was an awesome one and that he was mad about economic stuff.

Wasn’t’ wrong. Almost two hours of talking were flying by, even make me get interested in economics .

If you enjoy your speech, and nothing else matters.