Watching everyone’s credibility presentations in class gave me a ton of good ideas for things that I want to do in my future presentations. As someone who gave a fairly mediocre speech, it was especially easy to admire aspects of other people’s speeches. For example, Malia found a subject that pertained to her and that she really enjoyed, which made her presentation interesting and helped engage her audience.
I feel that an advantage that comes from watching others’ speeches is the ability to spot subconscious tendencies that the speaker has and learn to avoid them. An example of this would be how a couple of people who gave presentations before me had trouble with body language/nervous ticks. Because I noticed a couple people struggling to stop cracking their knuckles or shifting their weight from leg to leg I knew that when I gave my speech I had to keep these things in mind in order to avoid them.