Elizabeth Gilbert's TED talk effectively kept the audience engaged by using stories and comedy to illustrate her point that everyone has a genius within them, rather than genius being limited to a select few. She followed the 4th TED Commandment of telling a story to capture attention and relate to the audience. The reviewer was fully engaged for the entire 20 minutes and able to relate to Gilbert's speech, finding her jokes funny and enjoyable overall.

1. Your elusive creative genius

2.  There are no people
who are geniuses, but
instead that everyone
has a genius.

3.  Elizabeth Gilbert used
a story that people
could relate with to
capture the audience.

4.  She kept the attention
of the audience by
using stories and
comedy to keep
everyone interested.

5.  Elizabeth used the 4th TED
Commandment the most
in her speech.

6.  Thou Shalt Tell a Story.

7. 5
 I rank it with a:

8.  At first I wanted to give her a 4 simply
because I never give out 5’s. But when I was
trying to find ways with which she could raise
her dynamism, I found myself at a loss.

9.  She held my attention for the entire 20
minutes, and I was able to relate to her. I
found her jokes funny and found myself
enjoying her speech.

10.  Like Garr Reynolds and Nancy Duarte
said, Elizabeth used story in her speech so
that the audience did not get bored watching
her talk.

11.  Telling jokes is good to
help the audience stay
attentive and awake. An
amused audience is a
happy audience.

12.  While Elizabeth did
use jokes and
stories in her
speech, like Sir Ken
Robinson, I think
that Ken used
perhaps too many
jokes. His speech
seemed almost like
a comedy.

13.  Use storytelling, experiences from your life
that make your speech feel less like a speech.
Something that the audience can relate to.

14.  Use jokes. Making the
audience laugh means
that they enjoy your
speech.

15.  Elizabeth Gilbert: your elusive creative genius
 http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
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