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Stephan van Hulst wrote:I don't understand the question. What does "speaking as a programmer" mean?
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Jesper de Jong wrote:Jeanne, can you explain a bit more about how Toastmasters helped you drastically decrease the amount of time you need for preparing a presentation? It still takes me a lot of time to prepare.
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Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:I was at a Toastmasters training and someone asked me "why do you speak if you are a programmer"?
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Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:I was at a Toastmasters training and someone asked me "why do you speak if you are a programmer"?
Doesn't the question answer itself? You speak (at least in part) because people ask you questions.
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Jan de Boer wrote:Speaking in public is probably one of the few things I am good at, as a programmer. Am I an exception then?
Jesper de Jong wrote:You're not just an exception as a programmer, but in general.
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Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:I was at a Toastmasters training and someone asked me "why do you speak if you are a programmer"? (the implication we only work with computers.) I wrote my answer and put it online.
What reasons do you speak?
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