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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Mastering the Art of Speaking

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I share my top tips for mastering the art of speaking. I believe the best way to engage an audience is by capturing everyday lessons that resonate and attaching a story to them. I discuss how to organize these lessons, create impactful narratives, and understand your value as a speaker. I also emphasize the importance of knowing your bottom line and leveraging your unique experiences. Additionally, I provide insights on amplifying your speeches through various channels to build a strong reputation. Practical strategies will help make your speaking engagements memorable, effective, and aligned with your personal and professional goals.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success.

0:12.0

Number one, I believe the best way to speak is to write down everyday lessons that resonate with you.

0:19.0

Not everything, there's way too much content out there including this.

0:23.0

Don't remember anything I say unless it resonates with you.

0:26.1

And then attach a notation.

0:28.2

I just use a folder in Outlook.

0:30.2

And so someone said something at Princeton, it resonated with me.

0:34.0

I text it to myself, then I email it to my outlook, I put it in a folder.

0:38.0

Every Sunday, I look through all the lessons that resonated with me

0:42.0

and then I attach a story note. Not the whole story.

0:47.1

Right, so my oldest brother tells me, be more interested than interesting, or Bob Parsons tells me, if you learn to love. interested and

0:59.4

interesting, if you learn to love what you do and you learn to love what other people don't like and what they don't love to do,

1:12.6

it'll tell you all its secrets. And I write write that down then I just put Bob Parsons next to it and I tell the story differently every time as I remember it at that time which makes speaking really easy because all you have to do is know how much time do I have,

1:16.0

what stories am I going to tell, in other words what lessons I'm going to teach,

1:20.0

so when you intro it, you got your standard intro, you customize it to the three stories you're going to tell.

1:25.0

You then have the three stories to tell, you're watching the clock, and you know what your conclusion is according to the stories and lessons that you teach.

1:33.0

Also helps with interviews, which then gets you more speaking engagements,

1:36.0

also helps you with all other content that you do,

1:39.0

and so you're always teaching in the oldest form and fashion of teaching which is to tell stories and you

1:44.4

never have to remember anything other than two or three lessons that you want to

1:48.6

teach and the notated story that teaches it which is really easy to remember

1:52.4

because they're your stories.

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