A speaker I admire is Ray Bradbury, the author of several infamous books, including my all-time favorite, Fahrenheit 451. Although Bradbury recently passed away, his words of wisdom through literature and interviews will always be remembered. If you are not familiar with Bradbury, his literature allowed readers to broaden their imagination and view the world in a different perspective. Also, in his speeches, he was constantly able to convince his audience "Do what you love and love what you do". Bradbury's power to persuade others into living their life full of passion comes mainly from pathos. His words dug deep into the feelings of individuals in order to arouse what life meant to them. He was able to persuade me in believing that your passion in life will not only make you happy, but make you successful, because achieving happiness itself, is a success.
The personal qualities I have in order to persuade others is: charm, an educational background, reasoning, experience, and organization. I am able to persuade an individual due to the presentation of myself through appearance and proper etiquette of speech. I have an educational background to various studies due to college and my work force. Also, my reasoning is proficient due to my experience with a customer service background. Being organized when presenting topics, ideas, and facts are important because I would not want the audience to get "lost" within my reasoning.
Aristotle's classification scheme works for my personal qualities because I am partly credible, able to use logic reasoning, and imply the overall sense of emotions in context of what I need to persuade.
I have read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and a few of his other works. I have not heard of any of his speeches. I would of liked to hear the one that said to "Do what you love and love what you do". I think that is why he became so successful. When you do what you love it is not work. You end up giving so much more than just doing your 8 hours and going home. The challenge in life that I have found is how to get paid for what you love to do. I have found that I love the challenge that my work offers and balance that against the things I would rather not do.
ReplyDeleteI think that Ray Bradbury was an amazing author and I loved reading his work. I am sure that his speeches were just as powerful, he had tons of passion for what he was doing and in my mind that is what makes a speaker great. I think that people tend to settle for what is safe in their life and never follow their trues dreams. I believe that money and stability can only keep you some what satisfied and that accomplishing dreams is what leads to real happiness. I am currently under going a career change and I think that I should look up some of Bradbury's speeches for some motivation.
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