Topic | | Secret to great public speaking |
Introduction | | And even though these speakers and their topics all seem completely different, they actually do have _________________________. And it's this: Your number one task as a speaker is to transfer into your listeners' minds an extraordinary gift - a strange and beautiful object that we call an _____________________. |
| Example | l Haley Van Dyck l Sir Ken Robinson l Chris Anderson l Elora Hardy l Chimamanda Adichie |
| | Your mind is teeming with ideas, and not just randomly. They're carefully linked together. Collectively they form an amazingly complex structure that is your personal worldview. It's your brain's __________________. It's how you ______________ the world. And it is built up out of millions of __________________. |
| | Now, different people's worldviews can be __________________. |
| Example | l Dalia Mogahed |
| | Ideas are the most powerful force ______________________. |
Body | | So if you accept that your number one task as a speaker is to ____________________________ inside the minds of your audience, here are four ___________ for how you should go about that task: |
| Guideline 1 | Limit your talk to just _______________________. |
| | You have to give _______, share ________, make it vivid. So pick one idea, and make it the through-line running through your entire talk, so that everything you say links back to it in some way. |
| Guideline 2 | Give your listeners _______________________. |
| | If you can reveal a disconnection in someone's worldview, they'll feel the need to _______________. And once you've sparked that desire, it will be so much easier to ______________________. |
| Guideline 3 | Build your idea, piece by piece, _________________________ that your audience already understands. |
| | You use the power of language to _______________ that already exist in your listeners' minds - but not your language, their language. |
| Guideline 4 | Make your idea worth ______________________. |
| | But if you believe that the idea has the potential to ___________________ someone else's day or change someone else's perspective for the better or inspire someone to do something differently, then you have the ___________________________ to a truly great talk, one that can be a gift to them and to all of us. |