Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency by Jonty Claypole

In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking.

But what if hyper-fluency is not only unachievable but undesirable? Jonty Claypole spent fifteen years of his life in and out of extreme speech therapy.

Here, Jonty argues that our obsession with fluency could be hindering, rather than helping, our creativity, authenticity and persuasiveness.