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How To Be Awesome At Public Speaking
Being awesome at public speaking can be one of the most fear-inducing parts of modern life. However, it also can be one of the most rewarding tasks you can do. do.
Be a master at grabbing and keeping his audience’s attention, which is the number one goal of any public speaker. And also any compelling speech. Take them on a journey by way of an interesting story or maybe several.
Simplicity
You can keep it simple, even if you have mountains of research to report.
First, fine-tune your core message. Chisel away at your topic until you can reduce your presentation to a core message. Once you achieve this, all your ideas can march behind it.
This is as true for business presentations as it is for political campaigns. Consider Obama’s campaign speeches. He used his simple slogan to make us believe he was the politician for change — something so many Americans longed for — and he appealed to us to have faith (to believe) in the change he was offering us. He won people through a simple slogan, which then allowed him to more easily serve up his ideas about meaty topics.
Expressing views views
Be aware of the great line by Goethe, “Every word that is uttered evokes the idea of its opposite.” What this means is that when you express one…