The Five-Minute Speech

Day 11 of the 150 Best Self Edison Deck Challenge draws a "self" card asking for10 topics you could give a five-minute speech on right now. Here's what came to mind given 10 minutes in true Toast Masters style:

1. The importance of the long game from a four-time Boston Marathon qualifier/finisher. Alternative title: The power of "I wonder?"

2. Defining Character: The lies you choose not to tell and being accountable for your actions.

3. Why ambition fueled by purpose eats fiscal conservatism for lunch (in any economy).

4. Mansplaining defined for men who just don't get it.

5. How ALL CAPS and multiple exclamation points replaced our ability to communicate!!!

6. Swimming with the Piranhas or How to face your fears and come out unscathed. (Yes, I've done both.)

7. How technology replaced critical thinking with "call and response" thinking. (Or what we lost when we threw out the maps for GPS.)

8. Why the world needs more poets.

9. How to tell whether you are building the institution or the art?

10. What Madame Defarge and I have in common.