The Importance of Fluency in Human Communication

Julie Silverman says she's always been taught to be letter perfect. But if you're inserting pauses or the breath, I would totally give myself license to do that. Nobody listening to our podcast would suspect for a minute that we are reading a script. They know it's improvised and yet I wonder if our industry denies us that ability,. To convey the improvisatory nature of human communication by insisting on that fluency that constrains us.