@sim @Dicer @Leyonhjelm I'm not convinced the skills are related; you keep the outline in case you can't remember what you're going to say next or you need to remember a year or something but public speaking has to be mostly extemporaneous. If you want the kid to get good at public speaking, you teach him how to tell a joke: you can't tell a good joke if you're reading it off a page or if you're not paying attention to which parts seem to be boring people and which parts create anticipation.
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