Time to Rehearse Your Presentation Again

• 00:05 I hope you're having fun so far.
• 00:08 I hope you're enjoying yourself, but here's the part where you're
• 00:13 not gonna like me again cuz I have to be brutally honest.
• 00:16 If you're just watching me, listening, even taking notes, not gonna help.
• 00:23 You're not going to become a better speaker, you're only going to improve
• 00:28 if you actually take these principles we've discussed,
• 00:32 come up with a presentation, deliver it, record yourself and watch it.
• 00:36 And I know you don't want to do it.
• 00:39 People don't like doing it, even if they pay me a ton of money to
• 00:42 fly halfway across the world and show up in their office or their home to do it.
• 00:46 So I know you don't want to do it,
• 00:48 unfortunately it's the only way to get better at these skills
• 00:54 because if you're just watching me, it's really nothing but entertainment.
• 01:00 And I don't mean to knock myself, but believe me, there are a million
• 01:04 people you can be watching online who are a lot more entertaining than I am.
• 01:08 So, if you picked me just for
• 01:09 entertainment, you have made a profoundly bad decision.
• 01:15 But I can help you speak more effectively, but you gotta work with me.
• 01:19 So I'm asking you nicely, in fact, I'm begging you, don't go to the next
• 01:24 lecture in this course, don't fast forward, don't start reading the books.
• 01:30 Instead, drop everything, come up with a new outline, as we discussed.
• 01:36 Have it on a single sheet of paper.
• 01:38 Try to incorporate as many of the best practices I've highlighted
• 01:44 in this course so far, and then I need you to give a presentation.
• 01:49 Most important, I need you to record it.
• 01:52 Pull out your cell phone, you can hold it yourself.
• 01:54 If you want, you can prop it up against a wall, use a webcam,
• 01:59 an iPad, you can have a friend or family member record it for you.
• 02:04 Again it doesn't matter,
• 02:05 the quality of the camera, all that matters is that you can see yourself.
• 02:09 So I need you to record yourself giving this new version of your presentation.
• 02:16 I need you to watch it, and then I need you to write down or
• 02:20 type a list of everything you liked about what you see.
• 02:26 If you liked that you sounded conversational or your stories or
• 02:29 your examples or that you moved naturally, write it down.
• 02:34 Give yourself credit.
• 02:35 Don't just focus on the negatives.
• 02:38 I want you to be a harsh critic of yourself, but
• 02:41 I want you to be a fair critic.
• 02:43 And a fair critic gives equal time, points out the good and the bad.
• 02:48 So list everything you're doing well, then write everything you don't like.
• 02:53 What's wrong?
• 02:54 Are you boring?
• 02:54 Are you too monotone?
• 02:57 Is it uninteresting?
• 02:57 Is it a data tub?
• 02:58 What is it?
• 02:59 Write down exactly what you don't like.
• 03:03 Then I need you to do it again.
• 03:05 Try to do more of the good stuff.
• 03:08 Do less of the bad stuff, and keep a list.
• 03:13 Judge yourself again.
• 03:14 Write down the good, write down the bad.
• 03:17 Ideally one list is getting bigger, the other one Is getting smaller.
• 03:22 I need you to do this at least half a dozen times.
• 03:27 Keep doing it until you're convinced this is the absolute
• 03:33 best you can do with your current skill set based on the insights
• 03:39 I've given you based on your own reflections, based on your own practice.
• 03:44 Please don't go to the next lecture until you do.
• 03:47 You're wasting your time.
• 03:48 Why do you wanna waste your time?
• 03:50 Don't go to the next lecture until you've recorded your presentation,
• 03:55 critiqued it numerous times, and you're seeing progress and
• 03:59 you're convinced it's the best you can do.
• 04:02 So please do that right now.

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