WEBVTT 00:00:10.728 --> 00:00:12.138 It's 1903 00:00:12.438 --> 00:00:16.281 and this extraordinary guy named Teddy Roosevelt 00:00:16.281 --> 00:00:21.001 is standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon 00:00:21.007 --> 00:00:27.107 and at that time people wanted to create hotels and spas 00:00:27.107 --> 00:00:30.242 and turn the Grand Canyon, in 1903, 00:00:30.242 --> 00:00:34.211 intoa profit-making disneyland of the environment. 00:00:34.211 --> 00:00:37.026 And he stood and said no. 00:00:37.676 --> 00:00:41.347 And he created a tipping point for the environmental movement 00:00:41.347 --> 00:00:42.868 and for the world. 00:00:42.868 --> 00:00:45.785 He said: "leave it as it is. 00:00:45.935 --> 00:00:51.455 the ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it." 00:00:51.455 --> 00:00:54.204 (Aplauses) 00:00:54.204 --> 00:00:58.085 The world would have been a different place today 00:00:58.085 --> 00:01:02.811 without those words, those tipping point words 00:01:02.811 --> 00:01:05.002 from President Theodore Roosevelt. 00:01:05.222 --> 00:01:09.867 Fast forward, his fifth cousin, President Franklin Roosevelt, 00:01:09.867 --> 00:01:14.674 30 years later - 1933 - in the midst of a huge crisis, 00:01:14.674 --> 00:01:18.814 the great Depression of America, said a few words 00:01:18.814 --> 00:01:22.565 to create a tipping point towards healing for the USA. 00:01:22.565 --> 00:01:27.039 "First of all. Let me assert my firm belief 00:01:27.709 --> 00:01:33.378 that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, 00:01:34.558 --> 00:01:37.987 nameless unreasoning unjustified terror 00:01:38.657 --> 00:01:44.137 which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." 00:01:45.577 --> 00:01:47.633 The world would have been a different place 00:01:47.633 --> 00:01:51.548 without those words, at that time, from that man. 00:01:52.437 --> 00:01:56.891 So, in my 30 years of studying public speaking 00:01:56.891 --> 00:01:58.274 and great speeches, 00:01:58.294 --> 00:02:00.365 I've found that there are seven secrets 00:02:00.365 --> 00:02:03.739 that great speakers do, that other people don't. 00:02:03.739 --> 00:02:07.021 and it's my belief that every single human being 00:02:07.021 --> 00:02:09.982 can be a great speaker and that their words 00:02:09.982 --> 00:02:11.587 can create a tipping point, 00:02:11.587 --> 00:02:16.547 and that their words and their essencecan change the world. 00:02:16.553 --> 00:02:21.443 The first secret is about words and understanding that words 00:02:21.443 --> 00:02:24.459 can be the best, the most amazing in the world 00:02:24.459 --> 00:02:28.524 but they only actually touch people and communicate 00:02:28.524 --> 00:02:32.674 seven percent of the impact that one human being has on another. 00:02:32.674 --> 00:02:37.063 Voice tone, the variation in your voice, the enthusiams, 00:02:37.063 --> 00:02:39.671 the love, the passion that comes through your voice, 00:02:39.671 --> 00:02:41.530 38% percent your body language 00:02:41.530 --> 00:02:43.903 are you looking into someone's eyes 00:02:43.903 --> 00:02:46.991 or are you looking over their head and not connected. 00:02:46.991 --> 00:02:48.871 So words, voice tone and body language, 00:02:48.871 --> 00:02:51.502 those are the three vehicles, the tree pathways 00:02:51.502 --> 00:02:54.302 that great communication happens in. 00:02:54.530 --> 00:02:56.008 Secret #4 00:02:56.445 --> 00:03:00.705 What most people do, is that they throw so much datas out, 00:03:00.705 --> 00:03:02.715 trying to prove that they are smart, 00:03:02.774 --> 00:03:03.943 trying to get all the content out. 00:03:03.943 --> 00:03:05.813 Words are the seven percent. 00:03:05.867 --> 00:03:09.923 What is important is what is that one thing you want to leave people with? 00:03:09.933 --> 00:03:13.297 What is that headline? That's what makes a great speech. 00:03:13.330 --> 00:03:15.420 And that's what we are talking about today. 00:03:15.635 --> 00:03:18.175 Secret #5 is fascinating. 00:03:18.203 --> 00:03:22.014 If you are afraid or if any of you are afraid of public speeking, 00:03:22.094 --> 00:03:26.019 41% of the World, across cultures, 00:03:26.078 --> 00:03:29.428 is terrified almost to the point and often to the point 00:03:29.464 --> 00:03:32.724 of actually turning down speaking appointements. 00:03:32.784 --> 00:03:36.982 Wether they are political leaders, or business leaders or charitable leaders, 00:03:37.198 --> 00:03:39.954 they turn down opportunities to shake the World, 00:03:40.047 --> 00:03:41.575 because they are scared. 00:03:41.655 --> 00:03:43.952 There are a lot of reasons why people are scared 00:03:44.266 --> 00:03:46.578 but in my experience, the number One reason is: 00:03:46.767 --> 00:03:49.643 that we don't know what public speaking really is. 00:03:49.758 --> 00:03:51.286 We don't know the true definition. 00:03:51.601 --> 00:03:53.351 The true definition of public speaking is 00:03:53.351 --> 00:03:55.397 that public speaking is nothing more 00:03:55.949 --> 00:03:59.860 than having a conversation from your heart, 00:04:00.959 --> 00:04:04.504 about something you are authentically passionate about. 00:04:05.567 --> 00:04:07.435 If you think it's a performance, 00:04:07.729 --> 00:04:11.150 you are going to be a 0% you and a 100% actor, 00:04:11.150 --> 00:04:14.040 we don't get to see and experience and feel who you are. 00:04:14.338 --> 00:04:18.097 So, I want you to write the word "speech", down, on a piece of paper, 00:04:18.147 --> 00:04:19.632 and I want you to put a circle around it. 00:04:19.665 --> 00:04:21.175 and I want you to put a line through it. 00:04:21.208 --> 00:04:24.848 I don't want you ever, ever to give an other speech. 00:04:24.875 --> 00:04:26.575 That's not what great speakers do. 00:04:26.624 --> 00:04:29.661 They don't give a speech, they don't give a performance, 00:04:29.661 --> 00:04:31.381 they don't make a presentation to the audience, 00:04:31.392 --> 00:04:32.959 they have what? 00:04:32.979 --> 00:04:36.626 They have a conversation with, it's a circle. 00:04:36.649 --> 00:04:40.649 It brings us all together, we are a web, connected to every other person. 00:04:40.691 --> 00:04:42.711 And that's what great speakers do. 00:04:43.674 --> 00:04:45.456 When I first met Princess Diana, 00:04:46.432 --> 00:04:49.061 she looks me in the eye and says: 00:04:49.428 --> 00:04:53.895 "You know I am so scared of public speaking and I wish that I could do what Charles does". 00:04:53.934 --> 00:04:59.194 It was when they were actually breaking up so it was even more difficult for her to admit that. 00:04:59.248 --> 00:05:00.980 And I said: "What does he do? " 00:05:01.221 --> 00:05:05.836 "Well, he just stands up there and he tells these funny jokes and then he moves on 00:05:06.343 --> 00:05:08.118 and he is completly unphased by it." 00:05:08.758 --> 00:05:12.827 And I told her that Prince Charles doesn't have what she has. 00:05:13.979 --> 00:05:17.664 And what she had, was what touched and moved the world. 00:05:17.845 --> 00:05:20.371 People connected to her on a human level. 00:05:20.500 --> 00:05:23.589 And all you need to do, your royal highness, 00:05:23.718 --> 00:05:27.919 is just share from your heart, that huge heart that you have, 00:05:27.919 --> 00:05:30.572 and your guts and people will love you. 00:05:30.637 --> 00:05:33.387 Even through the speech that scares you, 00:05:33.400 --> 00:05:36.620 they will feel you, they will know you, they will connect with you. 00:05:37.052 --> 00:05:39.607 And that's far more effective than giving a speech, 00:05:39.607 --> 00:05:42.587 than telling a funny joke but not sharing your heart. 00:05:44.390 --> 00:05:45.450 So, secret #6, 00:05:46.134 --> 00:05:47.932 and you've noticed that in some of the speakers, 00:05:48.432 --> 00:05:50.696 we actually have 5 parts of our brain. 00:05:50.700 --> 00:05:52.486 Those 5 different senses, 00:05:52.974 --> 00:05:55.511 seing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and feeling, 00:05:56.070 --> 00:06:00.109 translated in 4 actual communication languages. 00:06:00.315 --> 00:06:02.746 Speak one of them, you're not gonna be very good. 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:06.039 Speak 2 of them, you're gonna be average, no matter who you are. 00:06:06.074 --> 00:06:10.024 Speak all 4, no matter who you are, you're gonna rock the World. 00:06:10.108 --> 00:06:15.502 Because you're gonna be giving every person in the audience, something that they can connect to. 00:06:16.296 --> 00:06:20.696 And visualize the energy, it's the energy of energy. 00:06:21.289 --> 00:06:25.412 It's Robby Williams, I used to give him as an exemple and I'm gonna continue to use him as an exemple. 00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:27.344 How amazing was Robbin Williams. 00:06:27.930 --> 00:06:32.957 Auditories, the ability to translate details of what you see what you think, what you feel, 00:06:33.118 --> 00:06:35.322 into a story, into words. 00:06:35.348 --> 00:06:37.642 Ronald Reagan was a great example of that. 00:06:37.923 --> 00:06:41.730 Auditory/ Digital, that's the Albert Einstein, the Bill Gates. 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:46.500 The analytical, statistically driven kind of information. 00:06:46.849 --> 00:06:49.130 You don' have that, you don't have the fondation of credibility. 00:06:49.270 --> 00:06:53.403 People are gonna go: "Woah, that person is charming but their is no there there."