#Speech #Pauses #Impact

 " ... nothing — not eye-contact, not spread arms — conveys confidence like a mid-sentence pause" - Janan Ganesh, The Financial Times, October 2, 2021, 'How to talk your way to the top'. [Accessed 3 October 2021].

https://hbr.org/2019/08/why-filler-words-like-um-and-ah-are-actually-useful

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-pause-how-use-effectively-when-speaking-kathleen-hale

https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/06/4-easy-tips-for-speaking-with-power/

https://jonasmuthoni.com/blog/how-to-talk-with-confidence/

https://matrix.berkeley.edu/research-article/whats-upspeak/

https://www.sankinspeechimprovement.com/are-you-asking-me-or-telling-me-speech-pattern/

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling001/pragmatics.html

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/types-of-declarative-sentences-with-examples

Hugh Jackman on Tony Robbins (YouTube)

Tony Robbins on the Best Piece of Advice He Ever Got (YouTube)

Michael Phelps - Think Small To Accomplish Big Things (YouTube)