TED's secret to great public speaking | Chris Anderson | TED

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Guidelines: 1. Focus on one major idea. 5:05 Pick one idea and make it through-line running through your entire talk, so that everything you say links back to it in some way. 2. Give people a reason to care. 5:33 Stir your audience's curiosity. Use intriguing, provocative questions. 3. Built your idea with familiar concepts. 6:10 Metaphors can play a crucial role in showing how the pieces fit together, based on an idea that the listener already understand. You start where they are. 4. Make your idea worth sharing 7:15 "Who does this idea benefit?" If you believe your idea could serve someone else, then you have the core ingredient to a truly great talk, one that can be a gift to them and to all of us.

I love how he followed his own rules for a good speech, in a speech about how to give a good speech.

TED himself, has finally given the talk.

Here is the summary.. 1. Focus on one major idea 2. Give people a reason to care 3. Build your idea with familiar concepts 4. Make your idea worth sharing

The world needs to follow the way he speaks; crisp and clear and with the right intonations.

Ideas on how to spread ideas well are truly ideas worth spreading. Great video.

OK so what Chris Anderson does here is : 1. Focus on one idea - Common trait improving public speaking. 2. Give a people reason to care - Do you think that there is a secret behind a great TED talk, and what is it? 3. Build your idea with concept people already know - giving notable example and proving his idea with them. 4.Make your idea worth sharing - his very answer to the same point.

I love public speaking . I hope I can move people one day

1) Be clear & closer to the audience regarding your ideas. 2) Involve the audience in that as if you were in their shoes. 3) Build your speech slowly around your idea till it reaches the final step & be kinda satisfying. 4) Guide others thru your speech so that the people listening to you can do the same one day & consider you one of them. 5) Don’t move too much away from your whole idea in your speech Txs🙏

This is such a concise and accurate overview Chris! Too often Professional Speakers assume that a TED Talk is a keynote and it is NOT. The visual representation of an idea forming in the collective minds of 1200 people is one that will stay with me forever.

Great stuff! I had to combine everything I learned from thirty years as a police officer and a stand-up comedian. Together with my experience with Toastmasters and as a facilitator in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, I had to write a book to share all I learned with those who want to be a better public speaker. I get and learn so much from TED talks. One can never know enough or stop learning. All the skills one can learn in public speaking can be used for fun, or to make the big bucks on the speaking circuit. There has never been a greater need for professional speakers for corporate functions and meetings. Thanks for sharing.

Really handy video, considering how many TEDTalks I have to give these days xD

The first lesson that really made me understand something about public performances. Thank you TED for everything you do for the mankind. It is really important for us.

I have a final exam tomorrow in communication art class wich focuses mainly on public speaking, and this just made my ideas more clear and organized.

Great video. I respect Chris Anderson. In some videos, where he is seen interviewing the speaker, he is so eager for knowledge. Despite knowing many things, his attitude towards acquiring new knowledge earns him great admiration from me.

Chris Anderson, your job is wonderful and necessary. You do your job very well and the affectivness of your skill allows as many people to see great ideas from someone elses eyes through their own eyes.

Just thinking of public speaking gives me anxiety

So glad I saw this talk! (the night before my presentation lol) I could rest assured that I was on the right path, be inspired by Chris' message (and graphics of ideas lighting up in listeners brains!), and reminded of graceful techniques. Thanks Chris!

Sir Robinson is my favorite Ted talks person of all time so far. I always come back to his talks once in awhile, they re still funny in an educational way every time.