Presentation Technique

In Steve Jobs' speech to the Stanford graduating class of 2005, he tells them 3 stories from his life.  The first story is about how he dropped out of college and ended up creating a multi-billion dollar company called Apple.  The second story is about how he was fired from Apple, and how he created a new company called Next and met his wife.  Apple joined up with Next, and he was working with Apple again.  The last story was about how he was diagnosed with cancer and found out it was curable.  By including stories about his own life in his speech, Jobs stuck to something he was passionate about and obviously knew a lot about, considering it was his own life.  He included some jokes and kept the audience engaged.  In the second video, Reshma Saujani begins her speech with a story of how she ran for Congress, and everyone told her she would lose.  She did lose, but it was the first time in her life that she truly did something brave.  She then continues with her speech explaining how girls are raised to be perfect, and boys are raised to be brave.  Girls are only allowed to do things that they know they will be great at and succeed in, while boys are taught to take risks and not worry about how good they are at something.  Her message is that girls need to be taught to be brave also.  I learned from these videos that including personal stories is a great way to keep an audience engaged, and it also shows that you have some experience with a certain topic and you know what you're talking about.

"Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection." Reshma Saujani:. TED, Feb. 2016. Web. 12 Mar. 2016.

Steve Jobs Quotes. Digital Image. Candy Tech. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2016.