In November of 2012, Andy Puddicombe gave a speech at the TEDSalon in London
called, All It Takes is 10 Mindful Minutes. During this speech he discussed the benefits of
meditation and slowing down our lives. He started his speech off by asking the audience a
question about the last time they did nothing. He related to the audience through humor and
situations that happen to all of us. After he describes these situations he states the fact that we
do not take time to take care of our minds. Since we do not slow down to take care of our
minds, we get stressed which causes us to get overwhelmed and distracts us from the
wonderful things in life. He tells the audience about a person experience he had as a child about
going to a meditation class with his mother. After explaining his experience, he uses a metaphor
to compare meditation to aspirin for the mind. He then gave another personal story about when
he was around 20 years old because a lot of things were happening in his life at that time so he
decided to drop his college major and became a monk in the Himalayas. After his story, he
explained how meditation works, by using a visual aid of juggling and by using metaphors to
compare meditation to balancing your concentration on the juggling. To conclude, he discussed
the fact that we are so distracted in our lives that we do not get to enjoy our lives. Through
meditation, we can take a step back and collect ourselves and enjoy our lives.
Andy Puddicombe uses great metaphors, visual aids, and he relates to his audience. He
used very few, if any logical fallacies and he was interesting to listen to. He kept me on my toes
and awake through humor, stories, and visual aids. It was and allaround very good speech and
he was a very good speaker.
Visual aids are very helpful to maintain the audiences attention. And does anybody think its funny that Kyleigh commented on this and it is marked as her blogpost?
While browsing on Google I found an old advertisement. The ad was for Lustre-Crème Shampoo. It featured Marilyn Monroe, known for her beauteous looks and her parts in different movies. One of her movies was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Lustre-Crème was attempting to sell their shampoo through the use of fallacies. By saying that Marilyn Monroe that tells you nothing about the actual product: it simply attracts you to the pretty face in the picture. Using this as an argument of why someone should buy your product is quite illogical. Just because Marilyn Monroe uses it doesn’t provide assurance of its abilities. They attempt using snob appeal by trying to make the audience believe that they could be like Marilyn Monroe if they use the same product as her. They use appeal to illegitimate authority by using Marilyn Monroe to promote their product. Although she herself is a customer, this is still rather irrelevant. She herself has no type of expertise in hair products and knows nothing that
While at the movie theaters to see The Maze Runner , I saw a commercial that featured rhetoric. The commercial begins with a young woman named Jess purchasing two Coca Cola drinks in a convenience store. One has her own name on it, and one has the name of her friend Alisha on it. The cashier watches her forlornly as she leaves, hinting that he has a crush on his customer. Jess gives the Coke with Alisha’s name on it to her friend, and together the two friends drink them. Later, Jess, Alisha and two other friends come back into the store to buy more Coke, then leave and have a good time together. Jess keeps coming back to the store with more and more friends, each time purchasing Coca Cola with their names printed on the labels. The cashier smiles and watches, but it is clear that he wishes he was with Jess. Finally, as the cashier is closing the store for the night, Jess shows up at the door with a Coke that has the name Chris on it. She smiles and hands the drink to the cash
In this Heinz condiments commercial, aired during the Super Bowl this past year, a group of dachshunds are shown in hot dog costumes running towards humans in Heinz ketchup and mustard costumes who end up catching the dogs as they leap into the humans’ arms and lick their faces. This commercial is a specific appeal to pathos as the dogs are dressed up and are meant to be cute. The phrase at the end of the commercial is “it’s hard to resist great taste” and this is stated while the dogs are licking the humans implying that the dogs like Heinz and that humans should buy it as well because the cute dogs in costumes did.
I would like this speech too. This topic is interesting and I think he spoke well with humor. Good;)
ReplyDeleteI think I would have liked this Ted Talk. I like when speakers use personal examples and humor.
ReplyDeleteGood discussion of the rhetorical helpers he used like the visual aids and humor.
ReplyDeleteThe way the speaker appealed to the audience and continuously captured the attention of everyone was very effective.
ReplyDeleteVisual aids are very helpful to maintain the audiences attention. And does anybody think its funny that Kyleigh commented on this and it is marked as her blogpost?
ReplyDeleteI like this speech and the way that he explained to us. I liked all of the humor that he used. He caught the reader's attention well.
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