Dyslexia is no laughing matter, but it can be. I’ve struggled all my life with reading difficulties. I took special ed grading class in grade school. If my high school English teachers ever knew I wrote a book, they would laugh. This video comes from a Get Paid to Speak champ camp when I’m just making light of my difficulty as it relates to being in the speaking business. CLICK TO PLAY VIDEO!
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Can you laugh at yourself?
Stage time,
Darren LaCroix, Toastmasters World Champion of Speaking
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That explains it! Great piece and very encouraging.
Karen
Darren,
I can see humour IN OTHER PEOPLE. But not in myself. What I mean by that is I don’t consider that I use humour in my daily talk AT ALL. People who know me say that i do. One of my friend;s says that I have – what he calls “dry humour”. For the reason I have just mentioned I do not enter Humorous Speech Contests within the Toastmasters Programme. But I will enter International Speech contests. I consider that if I can’t see the humour in what I say and do -why should I expect others to do so?
If I could get someone to convince me that I actually can present humour I would enter Humorous Speech contests. Can you (from over there – thousands of kilometres away from where I am) tell me how I could go about getting someone TO CONVINCE me that I can present humour?
Trevor McIlveen