Segue in Story Telling

Last night I listened to this address from Ken Robinson at the School of Life, last March.

From a public-speaking point of view, the thing that stood out to me was the strength of each segue between stories. It seems to me that the mainline--so to speak--of his lecture was very short. He spent most of his time exploring one digression after another. And he waffled, rambled, occasionally stumbled around looking for the right way to say something.

But here's the thing: his segue from digression-to-mainline was seamless every time. He did not miss a beat *there*. His pace, his wording, were bang-on at those points.

And so I never felt that the address had lost its way, which is pretty remarkable for what was almost an hour telling stories.