Improve Your Speaking

Thinking... What's the most important thing you can do in the next 10 days to improve your speaking? and for this Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book 3 years ago: "Outliers" "Los que Sobresalen" [in Spanish] What does it take to achieve World-Class? What does it take to be truly Excellent? As a musician? As a sportsman? As a speaker? and he looked at multiple different cases Is it talent? do Irish people just have this inmate knack that they can be great public speakers? and people from Chile will never get there the answer is "No". What is it that leads to excellence? in programming? and the answer: 10,000 hours of practice. No matter where you start from, no matter how talented a kid was in school it's the kid that practices 8 hours a day that's now playing as a soloist with the top orchestras of the world Leo Messi wasn't born with a better right knee and a better left foot than anyone else in the world. It's what he chose to do every day after school every weekend that means he is where he is today. The most important Commitment you can make to yourself …you can listen to all of this and if you don't do this it's a waste so, as you are considering that €6,000 that you've mentally paid and you are thinking "how do i get a Return on Investment?" Every laptop comes with a webcam I want each of you to decide that you're gonna spend 3 minutes every day for the next 10 days. You can call them workdays so you don't have to do it at the weekend. for 3 minutes every day Start a little program that records and explain a product... explain your CV... explain your vision... explain what is a good life... One speech that i get my students in IESE to do towards the end "A Value You Would Share with a Child as the Basis of A Good Life" So, Day 10 that's your challenge... 3 minutes your answer to what value would you share with a child as the basis for a good life. So, nothing I can do here is going to turn you into a great speaker. No amount of watching YouTube videos of Bill Clinton is going to turn you into Bill Clinton No amount of reading is going to turn you into a writer only by speaking... that you turn into a speaker but there are people who are fifty five years old they've been in more than 10,000 hour's worth of meetings and they're crap at meetings the 23-year-old who started yesterday is better at making meetings run effectively so it's not just about 10,000 hours... it's about deciding that it's important deciding you can get better and the video allows you the feedback that you can watch and see Here, there was... a pottery class in the United States Ceramics. Making pots. and the teacher took half of the class and she said at the end of this term your grade will be given on the weight of pots that you create here is a weighing scales at the end of the class whoever's total production of pots weighs the most will get the highest grade to the other half of the class she said you'll be evaluated on your one most finished piece of pottery the group that were told "sheer weight" what was their way of carrying on everyday they produced 5,6,7 pots they tried random experiments they tried weird things they try different ideas but their hands were on clay from the first moment the group that we're told that they would be evaluated on the most finished pot they read... they thought... they talked about concepts they talked about philosophical ideas they read more... then went to galleries to look at other people's pots and the first time they touched clay was about 3 days before the end of the class all of the best pots were made by the group that focused on weight. So, your way of being in the pottery group that was measured on weight is get the webcam going every day if you do it for 10 days you'll get a lot better if you keep it going... 3 minutes doesn't get you a very quickly to 10,000 hours 10,000 hours... 8 hours a day is 5 years 4 hours a day 10 years 2 hours a day 20 years but... we will all still be alive 20 years from now even 30 years from now Imagine. if you set a target of really practicing trying… trial… and the greatest musicians when you listen to them practice: it's horrible when I play piano I play the pieces I know the greatest musicians when they're practicing are trying things they don't already know. They are trying experiments, they are trying random things So with the webcam don't just give your perfect speech, try random things because no one else has to see it. It can be deleted rather quickly but just be careful that no one gets to your PC while you've got all the silly ones left on the desktop so the first Answer is... This is a waste of time if you don't decide to dedicate 3 minutes for the next 10 days To put into practice, to experiment with some of the ideas

Channel: Conor Neill

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Length: 6min 30sec (390 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 16 2011