One thing most clients come to me looking to learn how to do — which historically has been and remains the ideal ‘thing’ knowledge and skill in Rhetoric allows us to do — is deliver or engage in anything they’d like with *extemporaneous excellence*. Getting good at that takes *practice*.… Continue Reading
What to know, and what to do, to get good at Rhetoric
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Preparation 10 — There’s a Rhetoric to Preparation
We cannot rightly or fully prepare for anything requiring Rhetoric if we don’t understand and apply the Rhetoric of the mediums we are using — both in our final performance, and in their use in *the act of preparation itself*.… Continue Reading
Preparation 8 — Thinking Forward vs Thinking Backward
We tend to crash when not looking ahead, back behind us, or down at a map.… Continue Reading
Preparation 7 — We Can and Do Prepare Poorly
If over-preparing is *doing too much*, preparing poorly is *doing the wrong things*. Unfortunately, the wrong things done in the right way don’t become right along the way, making it just as bad, if not worse. … Continue Reading
Preparation 4 — Preparation Defined
Having already gone over some basic strategies we can take when we’re unprepared — embodied in my phrase “When we can’t deliver, decline or delay — it’s time we considered being prepared more broadly. This will help make things clearer before going into what it means to be authentically unprepared and not needlessly nervous about a Rhetorical engagement.… Continue Reading
What is Rhetoric? Part 4 — It’s Law
Law is scary, law is hard, and law is a language. We literally use law to rule our lives, which are Rhetorical on all sides. Whether we’re arguing nations into existence, or arguing about when we begin to exist, the reach of any law is a Rhetorical one.… Continue Reading
What is Rhetoric? Part 2 — It’s Religion
The wonderful thing about discussing Rhetoric regarding most anything, but particularly heated things like religion and politics, is that it only becomes *more* important the deeper we’re entrenched on either side of many dividing lines. Rhetoric’s role in religion, both in constituting it and conducting it, is the star of the show.… Continue Reading
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