Improve Your Speaking
Thinking what’s the most important thing you can do in the next ten days to improve your speaking and for this Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book three years ago outliers loss case so brace Alan 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 innate Mac that they can be great public speakers and people from Chile will never get there the answer is no so 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 eight hours a day that’s now playing as a soloist with the top orchestras of the world Leo Messi wasn’t born with 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 it is today so 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’re considering that 6,000 euros that you’ve mentally paid and you’re 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 going to spend three minutes every day for the next 10 days you can call them workday so you don’t have to do at the weekend for three minutes every day start a little program that records and explain the product explain your CV explain your vision explain what a good life one speech that I get my students in SES a 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 three 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 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 writer it’s only by speaking but you turn into a speaker but there’s people who are 55 years old they’ve been in more than 10,000 hours 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 it’s important deciding you can get better and the video allows you the feedback that you can watch and see now here there was a 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 so here is a weighing scales at the end of the class whoever 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 most finished piece of pottery the group that were told sheer weight what was their way of carrying on every day they produced five six seven pots they tried random experiments they tried weird things they tried different ideas but their hands were on clay from the first moment the group that were told 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 they went to galleries to look at other people’s pots and the first time they touched clay was about three 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 ten days you’ll get a lot better if you keep it going three minutes doesn’t get you very quickly to 10,000 hours 10,000 hours eight hours a days five years four hours a day ten years two hours a day twenty years but we’re all going to still be alive 20 years from now even 30 years from now imagine if you set a target of really practicing trying trial and they say 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’re trying experiments they’re try and random things so with the webcam don’t just give your perfect speech try random things because no one else has to see it you can delete it rather quickly but just be careful no one gets to your PC well 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 three minutes for the next 10 days to put into practice to experiment with some of the ideas
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