Toastmasters - Donald Yee - Simply Irresistable

[TheLatigoKid]

what language is this?

[hihih012005]

Great speech! Speech ideas, themes, phrases, quotes are often reused and paraphrased. I've been with Toastmasters for over 20 years. Speakers use content from other speakers all the time. It'd be a waste of time if we have to qualify every other sentence as to it's source or origin. So long as the speech itself is substantially original, then that's fine! From the descriptions and personal language used in this speech, you don't need to be a genius to decipher that this speech is very original.

[Bonecrusher27WTF]

@hihih012005 Ideas, themes, small phrases, quotes, even full sentences... I'd agree with you. However when someone uses a whole verbatim chunk, then I wonder when it crosses the line to you-know-what. It's true that people borrow content, which is why when someone constructs something all original, one transcends from the good to the great. Certainly, I would expect that sort of greatness from a champion.

[coldsteel0101]

on this one occassion, my boss was asked to strike a deal with this supplier that required him to sell out the rest of his team. He went home and discussed it with his wife and friends where after hours of deliberation, he decided not to go ahead with the deal. A few months later he was met with another similar case of having another supplier wanting to strike a deal with him. This was before the sabine oxley act.... he turned it down again but it is amazed how these things happen.

[molungron]

It is true that one needs to be wary of temptations in life. I remember many instances on business trips where the supplier was tasked with entertaining 'us' with lavish gifts, dinners and exotic hostesses. As the old saying goes, "when the cat is away, the mice will play". In fact temptations come about every day and in every way. I remember this one time when the supppliers took us to play mahjong where it was apparent that they kept losing to us.

[garylene]

That's interesting...

"Every now and then you must listen to that voice. That voice inside your head, and the voice inside of your heart. It is the voice of your conscience. It is the voice that asks: What is the right thing to do?"

It's the exact phrase Ed Tate used in his speech that won the 2000 Toastmasters World Championship.

[Bonecrusher27WTF]

@garylene Good call. I was wondering why I had feelings of deja vu. The 'problem' with knowing too much is you recognise when something isn't original, and it totally colours your world view of a speaker and sadly, sometimes his message. Even worse, I've had the experience of listening to a speaker before listening to another, and thinking the latter had lifted work from speaker one, when it was the other way around. I wish these things would be penalised in a high stakes competition. 

[u2m34get]

great!

[andyART]

Great speech! 5 Stars!!!!

[acer20]

Well constructed, hilarious, interesting, simple irresistible!