World Champion Public Speaker

There is a buzz around town.  Lance Miller the 2005 champion of Public Speaking is coming all the way down here to Melbourne town.  I believe he is booked out wherever he goes. I have a ticket to see one of the masters at work and I am also excited to find out more and learn more about Public Speaking.  

I find that there is one thing that has consciously changed about me and that is I now relish - learning new, better, as well as different ways of presenting myself.  The local Toastmasters club is also having an event with Lance to discover his methods of practice and tips to becoming the world champ.  It is being held in Box Hill on Thursday the 7th June and is a bargain at $20 @ head. I don't know if all their seats are gone but if not then email Susan at   susan_morrison11[at]yahoo.com

Studying the greats is a valid method of learning. I always use the phrase of "Do you want to fly like the Eagles or would you prefer to scratch about in the dirt with the Scrub Turkeys?"  Now don't get me wrong I love Turkey ... to eat, it's delicious... Eagles probably think so as well.

Cheers

Terry

 

Practice Makes Perfect

At speech courses we hear lots of old sayings and some make sense and some are...  let's face it old wives tales that have no substance.  Some are good and some are half true and some are downright false information.  And if I hear one more Speaker use the one about 'rather be in the box than giving the eulogy' I think I'll scream. What dull poor regurgitated humour.

Now lets get to 'practice makes perfect'... I think practice is a fantastic way to get familiar with what it is you want to be outstanding at so and I suppose if you want to be perfect maybe you will get close if you practice enough.  

My beef with this is perfect at what?

Practice is something that needs to be monitored on a constant basis.  If we want to be the "perfect" person at what we do then that means we are learning how to continually improve until we are perfect because there is no way we are perfect to start with. So like the top tennis player we need to have our coach constantly tweeking everything we say do and think until we almost become machine like in the way we perform.  

The amazing thing about this 'practice makes perfect' regime is if you practice enough at anything you will become excellent at it regardless if what you are doing is excellent or poor.  You can practice enough to be 'perfectly' excellent or 'perfectly' poor.

Find someone to give you the right feedback, to tweek and build on your skills, to make sure you are developing the way you ought to to achieve your goals.

Cheers

Terry

 

Lets have a laugh

TED Video of Seth Godin.. I am a fan of Seth and this is a great video of his clever use of power point to highlight his frustrations about being broken.

I have no embedding code for this video so you will have to use this link  http://www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_this_is_broken_1.html

 

I'd love to hear your comments.

Cheers

Terry