A talk for Toastmasters at Cranfield Speakers club on 30th November 2016. It is for the Advanced Manual "Speaking to Inform" Project 4 The Fact-Finding Report. I look at how tools and techniques to create potential speech topics and then select down to the most promising with a little help against procrastination.

1. Speech topics: Creating
and Breaking the
Paradox of Choice.
Daniel Sandars ACB ALS
Advanced Manual Speaking to Inform
Project 4: The Fact-Finding Report
30th November 2016, Cranfield Speakers

2. Systematic search: Speech Circles
Simon Scriver: The Evolution of a Speech Dubhlinn District 71 11-13 November 2016, Dublin
Toastmasters Conference

3. Random search: Wikipedia
Simon Scriver: The Evolution of a Speech Dubhlinn District 71 11-13 November 2016, Dublin
Toastmasters Conference
Random
Daily Random Features
and Trivia

4. Choosing your topic
Toastmasters International Better Speaker Series: 5 Selecting Your Topic (Item 274)

5. Pre-Crastinate “Burn or Burn”
Barry Schwartz Paradox of Choice, Harper
Perennial 2004
Eyal, N (2016) This Is How to Make Yourself Do
What You Need to Do Psychology Today Jan
14th

6. Conclusions
Searching
 Systematically
 Randomly
Selecting
 What does you audience need and care about?,
 What do you care about? And
 What do you know?
Pre-crastinate
 “Burn or Burn”

7. Thank You

8. Example Economics ∩ Comics
Bob the Builder never pays wages?
Why is Barney always happier than Fred?
Are the Smurfs communist?
Postman Pat delivers parcels by helicopter,
but what happens to the price of stamps?