What is the setting for Your Story Public Speaking

When you’re telling a story it’s crucially important for you to describe the setting.

Now the setting could be as Monday is I’m on the second floor of my office in Huntington New York.

And it’s a cloudy day.

There’s nothing particularly interesting about that but when I said that you have a certain image come to mind.

You perhaps have never been to Huntington New York and an office building that I haven’t been to hunting in an office building but the point is it creates a picture for you.

The human memory is much more of a visual processor than it than a word processor or where image processors not word processors so when you take the time to physically describe a setting whether you’re in a desert island with a typhoon coming on or just sitting in your house at 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning in your favorite easy chair paint the picture with words of the setting.

Now it’s not that important that people remember all that but what it does is it starts to get your audience to run a little movie camera in their brain and they’re visualizing what you’re saying.

That’s the beauty of describing the setting when you’re telling a story.