Whole body
26 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Dotty Scott explains why speakers should engage their whole body, especially the torso, when presenting. Using your whole body conveys passion and keeps you from looking like a detached talking head.

Dotty Scott explains why speakers should engage their whole body, especially the torso, when presenting. Using your whole body conveys passion and keeps you from looking like a detached talking head.
Then the third is your full body. And this is really important to understand, if you, especially if you're a speaker, if your whole body, specifically your torso, is not involved, then you're probably not very passionate about what you're talking about. You, it can feel, especially if your torso is completely still and you're talking, it can feel like you're a talking head and you're just talking like this and you're kind of emotionless and you're not really talking about something where you have meaning. But if you talk about something that you care about and you feel like excited, or you feel like, oh, this matters, your torso will get involved. So you can pay attention when you're speaking. And you know what?