Amy Cuddy Response
Nikolai Friedman
Oct.5th,2015
Oral communications
Amy Cuddy Response
David Cameron is an Ass Amy Cuddy is a social scientist and like many experts in their field has given a TED talk on the subject of her main work. In this TED talk she explores how our body language greatly affects who we become. Cuddy also shows how snubbing a handshake from your personal security after a visiting president shakes said guard’s hand, makes U.K Prime Minister David Cameron look like an ass. This 20 minute TED talk has been viewed by millions, and is one of the most popular ones currently on YouTube. Cuddy begins her speech by showing funnier examples of her main points. She shows mostly photos of world leaders, and also the previously mentioned clip of David Cameron. She uses these as …show more content…
She speaks quickly, moves a bit around stage, breathes into the mic quite a bit, and has a few clutch words. Her speed in speaking is rather quick, which is understandable due to how much information she had to share with the audience. I feel she could have spoken a little slower through the speech. She rocks a little on stage beyond a normal level, this is more common when a person does not have a podium like at many TED talks. It is not too distracting mainly because the camera is zoomed on her face for the majority of the speech. One thing I noticed about half way into the speech is that she was inhaling into the microphone, this got distracting after a while. I know that is something that is harder to regulate, but if she moved the mic a little further away from her it most likely could have been rectified. She does use clutch words a few times in her speech, a few sentences were begun with so, and like was said for non-comparison a couple times. Overall she does not commit any of these errors to the point of detraction from the main point, and she still got her point across effectively which is truly all the
Oct.5th,2015
Oral communications
Amy Cuddy Response
David Cameron is an Ass Amy Cuddy is a social scientist and like many experts in their field has given a TED talk on the subject of her main work. In this TED talk she explores how our body language greatly affects who we become. Cuddy also shows how snubbing a handshake from your personal security after a visiting president shakes said guard’s hand, makes U.K Prime Minister David Cameron look like an ass. This 20 minute TED talk has been viewed by millions, and is one of the most popular ones currently on YouTube. Cuddy begins her speech by showing funnier examples of her main points. She shows mostly photos of world leaders, and also the previously mentioned clip of David Cameron. She uses these as …show more content…
She speaks quickly, moves a bit around stage, breathes into the mic quite a bit, and has a few clutch words. Her speed in speaking is rather quick, which is understandable due to how much information she had to share with the audience. I feel she could have spoken a little slower through the speech. She rocks a little on stage beyond a normal level, this is more common when a person does not have a podium like at many TED talks. It is not too distracting mainly because the camera is zoomed on her face for the majority of the speech. One thing I noticed about half way into the speech is that she was inhaling into the microphone, this got distracting after a while. I know that is something that is harder to regulate, but if she moved the mic a little further away from her it most likely could have been rectified. She does use clutch words a few times in her speech, a few sentences were begun with so, and like was said for non-comparison a couple times. Overall she does not commit any of these errors to the point of detraction from the main point, and she still got her point across effectively which is truly all the