Talk Like TED -The 9 Public Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds

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Title: Talk Like TED -The 9 Public Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds

By: Carmine Gallo

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1 Identify your unique and meaningful connection to your topic
2 Tell stories to reach people’s hearts and minds
3 Practice relentlessly and internalize your content so that you can deliver the presentation as comfortably as having a conversation with a close friend
4 Reveal information that’s completely new to your audience, packaged differently, or offers a fresh and novel way to solve an old problem.
5 Deliver a shocking, impressive, or surprising moment that is memorable, grabing the listener’s attention and is remembered long after the presentation is over.
6 Lighten up with authentic humor.
7 Eighteen minutes is the ideal length of time for a presentation. If you must go longer build in soft breaks every 10 minutes.
8 Deliver presentations that touch more than one of the 5 senses, such as visual/video, .
9 Be authentic, open, and transparent.