Madisyn Johnson
CMCN 100-040
11 Feb 2024
Delivering a Great Speech
I honestly did not want to watch Will Stephen’s TedTalk. I put off doing this assignment
because I did not want to watch the video. However, I am glad I did. I have always told people
that if you have enough nonsense to say people will listen and engage, and that is exactly what
Stephen did. I liked how he introduced his speech by saying he will be giving the crowd nothing.
Even though he said he was going to tell the audience nothing, people clanged one wanting to
learn more of what he was saying. I also liked how he changed his tone within the duration of the
speech. The change in tone makes you listen harder because things were changing. The use of
changing his tone, eye contact with the people in the audience, and the fact that Stephen used an
attention grabber are a few aspects I can possess when giving a speech of my own. I really
enjoyed the speech, which was very unexpected to me. I think the overall takeaway from
Stephen’s TedTalk was that you can make anything seem interesting if you know how to work
the audience and you are confident while doing so. Public speaking to me is not something I fear
on a day-to-day basis. The reason for this is because when I was little, and throughout my
childhood, I competed in pageants. Since I was in pageants for a considerable amount of time,
learning to talk in front of an audience, stranger, and grown adults was a necessary skill I needed
to acquire. I also had a decent amount of public speaking experience because of different
activates I did throughout elementary and high school. Student council in high school really
contributed to majority of my comfortability around public speaking. Will Stephen’s speech
helped me to remind myself of the things people forget that make a good speech truly great.