An orator I admire

Karan Shah
2 min readOct 12, 2020

Dr. Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto is an impressive public figure and an even more powerful orator. I look to him for my side-education in psychology and the structure of human thought. And his oratory skills are in and of themselves, without any excessive use of volume or tenacity or crowd-playing or humor. This is what makes the power of his speech is even more curious.
He is at his best when he is storytelling, with the utility of absolutely all of his persona absorbed in the storyteller role. He moves from one spot to another as if traveling between cities. He animates his characters through himself, while still retaining his narrator role. He throws up his arms in exclamation as if he hath been graced by God himself. And the subjects upon which he speaks delve into the deepest of topics, within human psychology, biological evolution, thought patterns, symbolism, and the metaphysical world. He is a scholar and an architect of powerful oration, because he gears his talks and his answers to questions in a way such that they guide you to his conclusion. He introduces models of thought into the conversation to progress the conversation, which he validates immediately when he introduces them with commentary, tangents, and examples. The audience is never left in doubt as to the scope or validity of the picture, and when he reaches critical moments and plot twists in his stories, he explains them through a larger point of view, utilizing symbolism, archetypal evidence, philosophical grounding, and relation to other phenomena. There is immense complexity in his talks, and while sometimes it can be easy to lose track of his incredibly intricate answers, he always brings it back to a final knot at the end such that all doubt vanishes and it seems as if we’ve just been enlightened. He never stops being someone to be respected by a respectable audience and there is always more to learn from Dr. Jordan Peterson. I wish to learn the complexity with which he analyzes and bring out my thought into compelling oration.

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