martin curtis ted-assignment

CHARLES LIMB

IMPROVISATIONALBRAIN CREATIVITYRESEARCH

UNDERSTANDING CREATIVE MUSICAL IMPROVISATION

Charles is a doctor and a musician who researches the way musical creativity works in the human brain.

In the introduction of his presentation, Charles captures the attention of his audience with humor.

His audience immediately reacts with laughter.

He then engages a captive audience by explaining to them how his fascination with music and sound had inspired him to become a surgeon.

Charles then utilizes Audio/Visual Aids to maintain the engagement of his audience throughout the duration of his presentation.

This technique allowed him to effectively demonstrate the process he and his team had developed to do research, part of which was to put jazz musicians and rappers in an fmri and experiment different ways the brain works during musical improvisation.

The Ted Commandment that best represents Charlie’s presentation Is III: “Thou Shalt Reveal Thy Curiosity and Thy Passion”.

During this presentation Charles shares his curiosity and passion for experimenting and finding implications to understand creativity of all kinds…

CHARLIE'S DYNAMISM

Overall I would have to rate Dr. Limb’s dynamism at a solid 5 because he is very reputable and informative. He also displays a very clear and scientific delivery approach.

TIPS CHARLES USEDMostly all of Duarte’s tips were exhibited in this presentation. The one that had the most prominence was Dr. Limb’s media image design which kept the audience captive and engaged.

The Garr Reynolds tip I recognized was the natural flow of Dr. Limb’s presentation.

WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT DELIVERYBy watching Limb’s presentation “Brain on Improv” I learned how to deliver material that will effectively engage my audience with informative interaction by using a very natural research and development styled approach.

CONTRAST SIMILAR AND DIFFERENTCompared to Sir Ken Robinson’s two videos, Doctor Limb’s Video was similar in the way he used good humor to engage his audience as he talked about his research study of Improv brain creativity. They both cover two different aspects of creativity. Sir Robinson’s videos comes from a social awareness perspective while Dr. Limb’s is scientific.

TIPS

Research your Topic Thoroughly

Focus on the Needs of your Audience

Practice smooth transitions and Natural Delivery

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