Difference between a good and great speech? + One tip to sleep at night
🎮 Rishi Sunak’s favourite video game
❄️ One tip to keep cool
🎧 Help I sexted my boss podcast
🏉 Eddie Jones shouting at a fan
✍️ Substack Grow
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📣 Difference between a good and great speech?
As we hear from a lot of the speeches and closing statements from politicians during the Conservative leadership race, I have been reflecting on the different components of what makes a memorable and or moving speech.
In its simplest form, a good speech should take you on a journey, whereas a great speech will actually move your perceptions of a subject or individual.
It’s why best men’s speeches have greater potential than that of a groom to be memorable, as they get to take you on a journey from boy to man.
And so to Mansion House, for the inaugural 20:40 dinner, which is a non profit organisation looking to connect the leaders of the next generation together- almost like a 21st century Davos.
HRH Beatrice was the main speaker and I am not really sure what expectations I had. Firstly, she spoke from the heart. She spoke of the challenges of building a career and a reputation, where people have perceptions of you before you meet them. She also discussed the pressures of being a new parent and how that changes your identity significantly more than you anticipate.
It was one of the best speeches that I have heard in years, and am very much hoping we get to hear more from her.
Hats off to Sam Tidswell Norrish and the whole team at 20:40 for putting the event together.
🎮 Rishi Sunak’s favourite video game
Something that adds to a speech, is the sense of occasion. Whoever the new Prime Minister is, when they stand on the steps of Downing Street for the first time in September, it will be a momentous speech regardless of what they say.
It will mark a new chapter in the UK’s history, perhaps even more significantly so on this occasion: as I predicted in March, it will not be a white man.
I also said Rishi Sunak was generous value at at 12/1, but I also said Boris Johnson was safer than everyone was saying …
We interviewed Rishi Sunak for Jimmy’s Jobs at the start of the year and we have repurposed that episode below looking at some of the wider points that define our next Prime Minister.
He will be the first Prime Minister to consider himself ‘a gamer’, but we also talk about heavier topics such as keeping his mental health in check and the challenge of raising two young daughters.
It was described by the Independent as his most revealing interview yet, you can see it below:
❄️ Keeping cool in the UK
As the UK has its hottest day on record, there are so many tips, so many listicles on how to keep cool and a lot of it contradictory i.e. if windows should kept open or shut!
My one tip that I picked up a few years ago is to shower before bed, something about the cooling and relaxing effect makes a big difference.
Also my other lifehack is listening to podcasts just before bed. I’ve particularly been enjoying the series ‘HELP I sexted my boss’, which is where etiquette expert, William discusses with Jordan, who is very much not an etiquette expert, on the ways to respond to modern dilemmas.
✍️ Substack Grow
I have been participating on Substack’s Grow course, and it has been great to meet with other writers and swap and share tips from right across the globe.
It has at times been surreal. A couple of weeks ago, I was put into a Zoom networking session with former Wallabies player, Ben Alexander, who is writing about retirement from professional rugby and the challenges that brings.
He recently shared this video of Eddie Jones, having attended small dinners with Eddie before, this exchange did not surprise me in the slightest - enjoy
🎉Live event - tickets available
We have released a few more tickets for our first ever live recording of Jimmy’s Jobs is here.
Freddie Fforde is our speaker on Wednesday 3rd August hosted in Selkirk pub, Tooting, from 730, with the interview starting at 8.
Freddie’s company Patch is one of the most interesting companies in the future of work space, as he focuses on ‘decentralised workspace’.
You can read the piece on the fundraise in Techcrunch
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Great to meet you too Jimmy and sorry for sending yesterday's blog half finished!
Jokes aside, well done to Eddie and England. Professional sports is a business, and I hope one day Eddie's relationship with Rugby Australia can be repaired and we see him coaching the Wallabies as his last hurrah.