Speak Faster If Your Audience Disagrees, Slower If They Agree

If you know your audience, you could use speech rate to your advantage.

Speak slower if they agree with you, speak faster if they disagree.

The speed of your speech plays a part in how your message is received.

For example, speaking at a comfortable pace with deliberate pausesmakes you more persuasive.

In short: If you’re preaching to the choir, speak slowly; if not, speak quickly.

Speaking faster gives dissidents lesser time to form counterpoints and more easily persuades them.

Of course, speech is just one small part of the overall act of persuading someone.

Youneed to do more to convince someoneto buy into your ideas.

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