Audience Adaptation Getter For Persuasive Speech
1 Persuasive Speech l. Specific Purpose/Goal: I want my audience to consider using their weak hand more often than they normally have been. ll. Introduction: Attention Getter - (question/test) How many of you can perfectly write the whole alphabet with your weak hand? Topic – Using your weak hand more often can create more balance in your life as well as preventing long term problems.
Ethos & Audience Adaptation – I’m qualified to persuade my audience about my topic because I took great pride to find accurate information, and simply because I practice using my weak hand on the daily.
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Forget meditation - using your 'wrong' hand to stir your tea helps train your self-control
By Rob Waugh
PUBLISHED:10:41 EST, 9 March 2012| UPDATED:12:20 EST, 9 March 2012
People who find themselves on the verge of yelling at queue-jumpers or crafty colleagues could be helped by a simple - if slightly odd - exercise.
Right handers should get into the habit of using a computer mouse, stirring a cup of coffee or opening a door with their left hand - and left-handers should do the opposite.
'Training' yourself to use the 'wrong' hand seems to act as practice for other kinds of self control, such as being polite.
Just two weeks of the exercises reduce the tendency to act on impulse.
Two weeks of using your 'wrong' hand to stir your tea helps you control your anger: 'Training' yourself to use the 'wrong' hand seems to act as practice for other kinds of self control, such as being polite
Dr Thomas Denson, of the University of New South Wales, said practising self control is no different from getting better at golf or playing the …show more content…
Dr Denson said: ‘I think, for me, the most interesting findings that have come out of this is that if you give aggressive people the opportunity to improve their self control, they are less aggressive.’
It is not that aggressive people don’t want to control themselves - they just aren’t very good at it. In fact, if you put aggressive people in a brain scanner and monitor their brain activity while insulting them, the parts involved in self control are actually more active than in less aggressive people.
So it might be possible to teach people who struggle with anger or violence problems to control themselves more easily.
For people not inclined towards violence, it may also be useful to practice self control by trying to improve your posture, for example. In the short term, this can reduce self control and make it harder to control impulses.
Added Dr Denson: ‘But if you practice that over the long term, your self control capacity gets stronger over time. It is just like practicing anything, really - it is hard at first.’
But, over time, it can make that annoying colleague easier to deal with.
Ethos & Audience Adaptation – I’m qualified to persuade my audience about my topic because I took great pride to find accurate information, and simply because I practice using my weak hand on the daily.
III. Preview : Main Point #1- What it means to be ambidextrous …show more content…
Forget meditation - using your 'wrong' hand to stir your tea helps train your self-control
By Rob Waugh
PUBLISHED:10:41 EST, 9 March 2012| UPDATED:12:20 EST, 9 March 2012
People who find themselves on the verge of yelling at queue-jumpers or crafty colleagues could be helped by a simple - if slightly odd - exercise.
Right handers should get into the habit of using a computer mouse, stirring a cup of coffee or opening a door with their left hand - and left-handers should do the opposite.
'Training' yourself to use the 'wrong' hand seems to act as practice for other kinds of self control, such as being polite.
Just two weeks of the exercises reduce the tendency to act on impulse.
Two weeks of using your 'wrong' hand to stir your tea helps you control your anger: 'Training' yourself to use the 'wrong' hand seems to act as practice for other kinds of self control, such as being polite
Dr Thomas Denson, of the University of New South Wales, said practising self control is no different from getting better at golf or playing the …show more content…
Dr Denson said: ‘I think, for me, the most interesting findings that have come out of this is that if you give aggressive people the opportunity to improve their self control, they are less aggressive.’
It is not that aggressive people don’t want to control themselves - they just aren’t very good at it. In fact, if you put aggressive people in a brain scanner and monitor their brain activity while insulting them, the parts involved in self control are actually more active than in less aggressive people.
So it might be possible to teach people who struggle with anger or violence problems to control themselves more easily.
For people not inclined towards violence, it may also be useful to practice self control by trying to improve your posture, for example. In the short term, this can reduce self control and make it harder to control impulses.
Added Dr Denson: ‘But if you practice that over the long term, your self control capacity gets stronger over time. It is just like practicing anything, really - it is hard at first.’
But, over time, it can make that annoying colleague easier to deal with.