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No One Is Born a Speaker

Name: No One Is Born a Speaker
Uploaded: 2025-10-10T16:00:24+00:00
Duration: 1 min 24 s
Channel: Mick Hunt
Description: Short excerpt of a spoken YouTube talk (by Mick Hunt) arguing that public speaking is a learned habit rather than an innate trait, that speaking is…

10 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt of a spoken YouTube talk (by Mick Hunt) arguing that public speaking is a learned habit rather than an innate trait, that speaking is embodied (in eye contact, gesture, posture, energy and spatial movement), and that speaking must be adapted to different genres (conversation, panel, keynote, interview).

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There's no natural speaker. No one's born a speaker. Everyone is habitual. And if you are not a good speaker, you can become one. If you have a bad habit, you can work out of it. So that's number one. Number two, speaking is embodied, by the way, this is not embodied. Imagine how much energy I was expending being who I thought I had. That's reading someone's written word, right? Comes through eye contact, body, hand gestures, our soma, our bones, our energy, our space. You know, how we. How we move in space. Speaking is embodied. Number three. Speaking comes in many genres. This is a genre. I know that you and I are set up to have a conversation, right? This is not meant for me to come on here and monologue to you, right? A panel should be a dialogue, not a monologue. Often isn't. A keynote has a genre. An interview has a genre. And if you're not ruthlessly interrogating them, I say that, pun intended. No point. Right? Then you're going to miss something. You're going to not read the room. You're not going to know how long to go. You're not going to know what kind of seat you're in, right? So speaking comes in many genres.