Ruth Milligan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's terrific.
That is you, Mick.
You are the ultimate, you are, it is not about motivational speaking.
This is about wanting to learn.
That's what this book is about.
No.
And may I quote you a blueprint?
And I love that.
We sought that.
I think we did it.
And what I love most about our writing process is that we didn't set out to write a book.
We specifically set out to answer a question.
How can we be better coaches to our speakers?
Period.
And we sought out a writing scholar who I knew from my alma mater, Miami University, who taught us the notion of threshold concepts, which are those troublesome, recursive, nudgy things that you have to push through in order to get to the learning.
Remember, like, trying to learn calculus, and if you didn't get that one really...
I can't tell you what it is because I don't remember.
Those are the, the liminal spaces.
They feel uncomfortable when you get there.
You're like, Oh, I don't want to be here.