Adam Galinsky How To Speak Up For Yourself Analysis

Adam Galinsky- How to speak up for yourself
Introduction
A person goes through certain moments or events in his life when he wants to say so much but he does not. What makes him not to speak up? Why do people hold their emotions or opinions to themselves and do not speak up when they need to? Why do people speak up when they should not? The answer to these questions are effectively given in this TED talk, How to speak up for yourself by Adam Galinsky. The main argument of this talk is that we do not speak because we lack of perspective and we need to gain that perspective in order to deal with social awkwardness and the hurdles of not speaking up. Adam is a social psychologist so he guides people through effective use of rhetorical devices

For example, “when my wife and I became new parents” “the condemnation of our crying” “acceptable behavior” “joyful” “grow” “improve” “My eyes lit up. I smiled. I leaned in” and many other similar words and phrases are part of this talk throughout, which helped Galinsky to grab the attention of his audience. These words strongly helped him in supporting his arguments made about seeking a perspective and learn from other people. How these words attained the attention of his audience is very obvious as words like joyful itself are emotional terms to express an emotion. The speakers seems to have understanding that if he should make his audience understand what he wants to, he should use emotional strategy and his strategy actually worked. For example, he said, “And one of the ways we can come across as an expert is by tapping into our passion” (Galinsky). This is one of the evidences which prove the efficient use of emotional appeal in this speaker. He motivates us audience by using the term “to tap our passion” so that they could think about being passionate about a subject and realize that how important is that for them to be understanding towards a matter. Throughout the talk, there are many points where he was able to make appeal to emotions of his