Better Than Dying: One Critical Skill For Success

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When asked to list their top fears, most people list public speaking first and death second. As Jerry Seinfeld once said, this means that if you're at a funeral, you'd rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy. Face your fear and cultivate your skills with Hal Elrod as he interviews Jon Berghoff on how public speaking can help you to influence, inspire, and communicate to large groups and in personal interactions.

One of the most important keys in speaking effectively to an audience, no matter how large or small, is understanding the importance of context over content. You might have a very well-written speech, but if you aren't aware of where your audience is coming from, it will fall on deaf ears. Jon gives his Context Creation Formula to help you in creating an effective framework.

If you ask them, most audiences will know a good speaker from a bad one. But what are the qualities of a good speaker and how can you develop them yourself? Jon and Hal each share their top three tips to help you on your public speaking journey:

Empathetic
An ability to inspire
Self-awareness and presence
Vulnerability
Storytelling
Entertaining

Never underestimate the power of preparation and always remember that, even though the spotlight is on you, public speaking is ultimately about the audience and their experience. Join Jon Berghoff and Jon Vroman at their Speaker Trainer Experience event to learn more about delivering exceptional speeches and how to distinguish between speaking and training.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals Podcast with Hell Elrod. I'm your host Nick Paul Kuski and you're listening to the show that is guaranteed to help you take your life to the next level faster than you ever thought possible.
0:18.0	In each episode you will learn from someone who has achieved extraordinary goals that most have it.
0:23.7	He is the author of the number one best-selling book The Miracle Morning, a Hall of Fame
0:29.2	Business Achiever, an international keynote speaker,
0:33.0	ultra marathon runner, and the founder of the IP success coaching.com,
0:39.0	Mr. Hal-Elra.
0:41.0	All right, achieve your goals, podcast listeners.
0:44.0	Welcome, this is Hal Elrod, your host, and my good friend John Bergoff is back again.
0:48.4	I can't get rid of this guy, you know, I don't know what it is.
0:51.5	But one of my good friends and one of the best communicators in the world.
0:54.3	The title of today's podcast is potentially I don't know if this is going to be the title for
1:00.7	sure so I'm gonna I'm to share with you what I'm thinking
1:03.6	uh... better than dying that that's the tentative working title for today's
1:08.4	podcast better than dying and you might go well what does that mean?
1:13.0	Well Jerry Seinfeld once addressed that public speaking is the number one fear amongst people
1:19.2	and death is right behind it and he joked that that means if you are going to a funeral or if you are at a
1:26.2	funeral you would rather be in the casket than delivering the eulogy which is kind of a
1:31.7	crazy uh... crazy prospect but today we're going to talk about speaking your way to success
1:37.0	we're going to talk about the importance of public speaking and this is a you know this is something
1:40.7	that whether you dream of being a professional speaker as I did
1:45.8	15 years ago you know that was a dream of mine as it was for my my guest today John Bergoff
1:51.9	but whether you dream being a public speaker or you just have goals that you want to achieve that involve other human beings, because public speaking and developing that skill is really
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