As a speaker, what can you do to hold your audience's attention and overcome the discrepancy between speech and thought rate?

a. You should build in message redundancy and make your major ideas really clear.
b. You should make the speech as short as possible, while still managing to include your main points.
c. You should probably not do a speech at all if you think the audience will lose attention; instead, simply have a discussion or question-and-answer session.
d. There is really nothing a speaker can do to hold the audience's attention; if the audience loses focus, that is their fault and they should have stayed at home.


a

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