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?
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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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