Theme or Speech Ideas Now and then a subject pops up which makes me think, hey, that would make a great classroom discussion, Toastmaster’s or Rotary speech or theme for Table Topic sessions. The Importance of: #1 Silence Why Silence is the Think Tank of the Soul Remarkable things about Silence Silence Important to the Brain #2...
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Table Topic: If We Could, Would We?
The 5 W’s Table Topic Questions As we contemplated our assignment to ask our fellow members and guests questions that might provoke thoughtful responses, we remember the 5 W’s as taught to us from an early age. Promote deep thinking with “who, what, when, where, why and how” questions. What would happen if we could travel to...
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The Brain The primary function of the brain is to ensure survival of the host…you. Cognition From infancy, parents, community, tradition, religion, science, ists and isms and politicians, our brains acquire cognition: knowledge and understanding through learning, experience input from the senses: Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. Fear / Phobia controlled through the process of cognition....
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What is 3-D Thinking? Critical thinking is 3-D thinking. Critical not in the sense of movie critics and bad reviews, but critical as in asking questions and pondering data. Critical thinking happens when you question your own positions and beliefs on issues and events. Most of the time humans operate on auto-pilot, 2-D fast-thinking. This is a...
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In our 30’s, we loved to fish and bake our brains in the hot sun in a boat on a lake while playing guess and by golly with striped and bugle mouth bass. It’s a thrill of the hunt sort of exercise. Most of our catches we would apologize to the fish for the trouble and throw...
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Activities for the Fall Harvest Season – Speech Our 5 to 7 minute contribution to the Hilarity Harvest No-Contest Toastmaster affair back in October 30, 2018. For this speech, we researched to find a few of the more common activities people partake in the fall/Halloween season. Then we envisioned ourself partaking in such activities as an out...
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Philosophy of Funny, aka Humor Gets a Bad Rap When people are asked what’s important in their lives, they often mention humor. Sense of humor nears the top of the most wanted traits couples want most in a partner. Since ancient times, over 3,000 years, philosophers have claimed dominion over all that is important in life, but...
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What IS Funny These table topic questions below accompany our speech: Philosophy of Humor. According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s, Philosophy of Humor, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/humor/ ‘When people are asked what’s important in their lives, they often mention humor. Couples listing the traits they prize in their spouses usually put “sense of humor” at or near the top. Philosophers...
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Chaos knows our slide into the shadowland started the day we sat down to enjoy a bit of news with our dinner and to witness a whore politician look directly into our trusting eyes and question the meaning of the word “is.” Until that moment Control held a stranglehold on the dreams and ideals that we had...
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How to Write a 3-Part Speech Rule of Three for Motivational Speeches. During a week of procrastination and heading towards a hard deadline for delivering a speech at my club, we experimented with my own, personalized “Rule of Three for Motivational Speeches” method of speech writing. Introduction Body Conclusion For an additional challenge we decided to add...
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