Ted Talk Stark

The TED Talk I watched was titled Why you should talk to strangers. Kio Stark, the presenter of the speech, discussed why there are many benefits to talking to people we don’t know. According to Stark, not talking to strangers causes the opportunity to create unexpected connections. She said people do not talk to strangers because of our fears. Her speech concluded with Stark encouraging people use their senses instead of fears and outlining the steps of how to appropriately talk to strangers. From analyzing the speech there are a few takeaways. Stark had a good use of body language. Her messages did not need large motions to help convey them. However, her small hand gestures made it easy for the viewer to keep focus, and they helped highlight …show more content…
However, there are a few things that could have been done to improve the TED Talk. One point is I did not believe her call to action. Her goal was to encourage people to go to strangers. After watching the speech, I was not more motivated to begin to talk to strangers. One reason for this is, from my experiences, some people do not wish to be talked to in public. There have been times were I talked to strangers where they did not want to be bothered. These people were short with their conversation and I did not gain any “unexpected connections.” Her speech was around 12 minutes. TED Talks can go up to 1 minutes. Thus, I believe she could of spoke for several more minutes to further convince the audience of her points. Another criticism of her speech was the conclusion. One of her last points she made was instead of teaching “our children about strangers” we can spend more time “teaching ourselves.” This point was hard to comprehend. I believe she was trying to say by talking to strangers, we are teaching ourselves. This is a good point, and if this was her point, her directly stating something on those lines would wrap the speech well. This makes the idea of talking to strangers more clear and