I like
realists, in my opinion they are more matter-of-fact people. It is the happy
medium between everything in this world is meaningless and the world is made of
rainbows and sunshine. I’ve talked about attitude in rhetoric before, but this
ecard reminded me of something a little different. Attitude is how you reacted
to a situation. This is more of an outlook, by knowing your outlook on life I
can predict how you will react to a situation.
www.someecards.com
Today in
class we talked about motivational speeches. I like motivational speakers, I’m
not saying I need motivation to build up my self esteem, but I enjoy people
talking about things they are really passionate about. It makes me see some
good yet in the world. What I don’t like is when motivational speakers have to
over optimistic outlook, like I said I like realists. You all know who I’m
talking about. Those super peppy speakers, who try really hard to get the
audience involved and participating. Yea them… I appreciate when people are
passionate, but I don’t think over optimistic is a realistic attitude to have
when giving motivational speech. You can’t go into a motivational speech
thinking that you are going to change every ones mind, that’s not possible. You
can however go into a motivational speech being a realist. If you understand
that not everyone is going to take what you say to heart, but still get to some
people and make the majority of people listen, then you’ve done a great job. As
we, meaning my la101 class, start our motivational speeches, this is something
I want to keep in consideration, my goal is too make people listen, and maybe
do something more, not make everyone drink the kool aid with me.
I think we can all agree that those crazy TV preachers way overdue their motivational speaking. It is incredible the amount of extra dramatization they must include into their programs to get their point across. I will also try to keep this in mind to not go to crazy during my motivational speech.
ReplyDeleteWorse than the overly optimistic are the overly pessimistic. I can't stand the religious fanatics that stand around and talk about how we're all damned and try to scare us into faith. Apart from being ineffective it's annoying.
ReplyDeleteI agree that although a positive attitude is important in life, keeping things real is just as important. Trying too hard to get people to agree with you usually only leads to the strengthening of their disagreement with you. "Too much of anything is too much"- all time low. haha
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