A Little Advice Please...

RonMN · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject: Re: A Little Advice Please...

That's a fair response...and you & I can deal with that...But a college crowd?

I ask you again to bring a shield Smile

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PrairieMule · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: A Little Advice Please...

Aaron,

I'd like to say there is no one else here that could represent this website than yourself. I'm not sure what kind of public speaker you are, but the best advice for addressing a crowd can boiled down to a simple concept.

Often folks who address large crowds will get physical manifestations of anxiety that are mistaken that they are going to loose it."Oh crap! Look at all these people. I hope I don't blow it" . In reality the the body is doing one of two things: fight or flight. All to often a public speaker who really commands expertise on a subject will think his body is telling him to" fly" when in fact it is preparing him to "fight". So if you show up and get "stunned" by a mass or a collective of cornucopian smart asses try and visualize it will go down something like this: If I am not mistaken you hold a black belt in some martial art, so think of it like 30 min sparring match with a dozen yellow belts in front of 100 tournament spectators. The gentle art of persuasion is no different than a Aikido practitioner using his opponent's own force against themselves.

You know this stuff. Wipe the floor with them.

As we speak 171 people worldwide have access to watch me fall flat on my ass as I type. So what? Public speaking is no different. Not sure if that is the real advice you seek but I have every faith you will open minds there just as you do here every day.

Now with that knowledge, you are twice as effective as someone armed with a regurgitated Kunstler talking points.
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RonMN · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: A Little Advice Please...

Prairie Mule Wrote:
You know this stuff. Wipe the floor with them.

Normally I would agree...but this is not a matter of who is right! This is a matter of whom survives!

And it's a gonna get ugly!
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Aaron · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:11 am Post subject: Re: A Little Advice Please...

I'm not intimidated by public speaking, and have done a fair bit of it in my life.

I'm also not concerned about Lander's objections... I rather hope for some objections in Q&A to help clarify the topic.

I'll post up my current draft presentation later today, time permitting, for the community to dissect.

I'd like to do a PeakSpeak session & try it out on you guys.

Perhaps tonight?
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PrairieMule · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:05 am Post subject: Re: A Little Advice Please...

Aaron · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:08 am Post subject: Re: A Little Advice Please...

Draft Presentaion
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PrairieMule · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:33 am Post subject: Re: A Little Advice Please...

Looks tight.

How a about quick mention of how dependent we are for cheap abunant energy in American retail logistics with a image like this to show what life could be like w/o cheap energy.

That might drive the message home.
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Shannymara · Master Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5435 Location: Oklahoma

Wow, lots of info there - how much time do you have to speak? It looks good, though. Only a couple of other comments. In the slide on Jeavons, is the 2nd apostrophe correct? I think it should be removed. Also, where's the slide about why this is such a big deal? Are you going to talk about that on the "What's in a barrel" slide, or the "Impact" slide, or...? I think most people really don't get that, like I said before (just my opinion). I really, really like the closing slide before the Q&A one. Nice.
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seahorse2 · Expert Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 1916

Aaron,

Slides look good if you have time to explain what all those complex graphs really mean. However, next to the slide on Hubbard, I would also mention some modern prominent businessman like Texas billionair Rainwater and some of his dire quotes - just to show this isn't some nut whackos on the internet believing this.

I think its also important to drive home the fact that the gov't knows:

(1) slides quoting from Bush quoting his last two state of the Unions that we have to get off of oil - obvious implication why?
(2) Hirsch report for DOE talking about how dire it is if we don't have enough lead time;
(3) GAO report you have;
(4) Baker Institute report in 2001 saying US could become a third world country (everyone knows who Baker is);
(5) Congressman Bartless leading charge on PO;
(6) Basic questions like, how much did it cost everyone to fill up last time, and why are gas prices rising? Myth, Arabs holding out on us, but that may not be the problem. What would it mean to us and the rest of the world if Saudi Arabian oil production went into decline like Texas did in the 70s. Challenge everyone to go out and find out why gas prices are rising, why fuel inventories are dropping.

mmasters · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:44 pm Post subject: Re: A Little Advice Please...

Looks awesome.

Only thing seems missing from the slides is more extrapolation on how society is completely hinged on derivatives of oil.

Food:
Commercial crops, fertilizer, meat, etc...

Industry:
manufacturing, plastic, etc...

Globalization:
tee shirts from china, berries from Chile and all that jazz...

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dinopello · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: A Little Advice Please...

Looks good to me. One suggestion is rather than that bar graph labelled World Oil Consumption which I found took a little time to understand - there is a map on Bartlett's Energy Page in PDF format that shows this much more dramatically and hits home the geo-political issue

Link to page

The graphic is called "The World according to Oil"

Aaron · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: Re: A Little Advice Please...

The event went well.

No cornucopians I spoke with... mostly questions about oil substitutes & urban sustainability issues.

Not long enough.
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