My fellow citizens of the world. Do you know what another big problem is? When you're speaking to large crowds? That problem is yelling. That's right folks yelling now, this day and age if you're speaking to a crowd of 200 300 500 1000 5000 in a major convention hall or an outdoor Stadium, chances are, you're going to have a microphone, which means you don't have to share share. Yeah.
In order to be heard, you could speak in a conversational tone, you can use the full range of your voice. Here's the problem with yelling. Nobody likes to be yelled at, it's irritating to the ear. It also is a particular type of monitor. If you go at the same speed, the same volume behavior See how consistent it is? That's annoying.
It's kind of like someone punching in you punching you in the arm. After a while it's really gonna hurt. Even if they're not hitting that hard. It's too consistent. The other problem with giving a speech in front of a large crowd, if you're on any kind of video, people are watching it later. If it's on YouTube, you're gonna look angry, upset, that's probably not the image you want.
And it's just too hot. Now, there was a time a long time ago before electricity before speakers and microphones. If you were campaigning somewhere, you did have to yell, you would stand on a stump. And all the people out in the cornfield couldn't hear you unless you yelled so it makes sense to yell if there's no amplification around. If you have a family member about to run out in front of a car crossing the street and they're 50 feet away. It makes sense to yell But when you're giving a speech to a large crowd, you want to sound conversational.
You want to sound like you're just talking to one or two people. And that's what you don't want to yell. And the hard part is psychologically, you're seeing people a long way away. So you want to be helpful you want to be heard. So psychologically, if you see someone 123 400 feet away, the inclination is to try to project but if you've got a microphone like this one, or anyplace else, you don't have to yell, so you need to fight the impulse of yelling. It's one of the biggest detriments to good public speaking in front of a large crowd.