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Check out your local Toastmasters club. Public speaking is part of it, but meetings also feature conversations on a topic. For me, taking improv lessons helped
by __derek__ 4y ago
Check out your local Toastmasters club. Public speaking is part of it, but meetings also feature conversations on a topic.
For me, taking improv lessons helped a lot. It forces you to focus less on trying to be funny (or eloquent) yourself, and more on paying attention and reacting to your scene (or conversational) partner. Doing so in real-time helps with recall, which should unlock (useful) vocabulary, connections, and ideas.
- MerelyMortal 4y agoI second Toastmasters. Just visit a local meeting before committing to see how it works. There is a Toastmaster who is the emcee that runs the meeting and makes sure all roles are explained, and one of the roles is an "Uh/Um Counter" - litteraly someone who counts how many times each speaker says "Uh", "Um", or some other filler word, and then provides feedback or suggestions going forward.