Peter Fogel’s “Creating Smooth Transitions During Your Speech!”
Ever drive a stick shift in a car?
If you have, then you soon discovered if you don’t use the clutch the right way (too fast or too slow — or not at all), the gears will collide and you’ll hear an annoying and scary grinding of metal. Most new teenage drivers know this hellacious sound. (And their fathers know this hellacious sound as they curse under their breath at the thought of having to get a new clutch job.)
What you (and your father) realized at that moment was that you did NOT have a smooth transition
between gears. You also can NOT jump from first gear to third either! What you DO need is a smooth transition between all the gears and in the right order.
Well, guess what? In the world of public speaking, it’s vital you also make a smooth transition between thoughts, ideas and stories. Not doing so will create a “grinding of the gears” effect with your audience.