Writing and speaking go hand in hand
The method that over the years has created some of the best speakers, authors, and teachers is the simple process of taking an idea of your thoughts and transferring it to paper. Once you can put what you think or know on paper at that point you are in a position of authority. You have the ingredients for several different paths to take. Firstly, you can simply become a writer, secondly, you can become a teacher, thirdly, and probably the most difficult thing for many people, is to become a speaker.
When you focus on the writing part, the prospect of writing a book has for most people a certain appeal. And from the point of view of the teacher, almost everything written has the possibility of being taught to another person. Now, back to the speaker, the point of interest of his perspective is to be in front of a crowd, and more than half of the people who are asked to speak in public will refuse. Now the reasons for this have several different answers. Fear is the number one response to decline.
However, for a speaker to be effective, insightful, and motivating, they must get up and speak. All the writing in the world will be of no use if no one reads or speaks what has been written. That’s why I say the two go hand in hand. It is very difficult to read from memory and it is also difficult to speak from memory, so words must be divided into categories for a person to talk about a topic effectively. When we talk about breaking down, we simply mean structuring the information you’ve placed in front of you in a way that makes it easy to follow the pattern you’ve established to deliver your message to your audience.
When I talk about configuration and patterns, I mean things like: having a beginning, a middle, and an end to the speech. Include bullet points or key points that you want to highlight. And as simple as it may sound, one of the things I focus on when I speak is my actual input and output. Because for me I want to know once I’m done which direction to go. Now, after reviewing all the things writing and speaking have in common, it only makes sense to work on your skills in these two areas, you never know when you’ll be asked to speak.