0:00:10.728,0:00:12.138 It's 1903 0:00:12.438,0:00:16.281 and this extraordinary guy [br]named Teddy Roosevelt 0:00:16.281,0:00:21.001 is standing on the edge [br]of the Grand Canyon 0:00:21.007,0:00:27.107 and at that time people wanted[br]to create hotels and spas 0:00:27.107,0:00:30.242 and turn the Grand Canyon, in 1903, 0:00:30.242,0:00:34.211 intoa profit-making disneyland [br]of the environment. 0:00:34.211,0:00:37.026 And he stood and said no. [br] 0:00:37.676,0:00:41.347 And he created a tipping point for[br]the environmental movement 0:00:41.347,0:00:42.868 and for the world. 0:00:42.868,0:00:45.785 He said: "leave it as it is. 0:00:45.935,0:00:51.455 the ages have been at work on it [br]and man can only mar it." 0:00:51.455,0:00:54.204 (Aplauses) 0:00:54.204,0:00:58.085 The world would have been[br]a different place today 0:00:58.085,0:01:02.811 without those words,[br]those tipping point words 0:01:02.811,0:01:05.002 from President Theodore Roosevelt. 0:01:05.222,0:01:09.867 Fast forward, his fifth cousin,[br]President Franklin Roosevelt, 0:01:09.867,0:01:14.674 30 years later - 1933 -[br]in the midst of a huge crisis, 0:01:14.674,0:01:18.814 the great Depression of America,[br]said a few words 0:01:18.814,0:01:22.565 to create a tipping point [br]towards healing for the USA. 0:01:22.565,0:01:27.039 "First of all. Let me assert my firm belief 0:01:27.709,0:01:33.378 that the only thing we have[br]to fear is fear itself, 0:01:34.558,0:01:37.987 nameless unreasoning [br]unjustified terror 0:01:38.657,0:01:44.137 which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." 0:01:45.577,0:01:47.633 The world would have been[br]a different place 0:01:47.633,0:01:51.548 without those words, at that time,[br]from that man. 0:01:52.437,0:01:56.891 So, in my 30 years of studying public speaking 0:01:56.891,0:01:58.274 and great speeches, 0:01:58.294,0:02:00.365 I've found that [br]there are seven secrets 0:02:00.365,0:02:03.739 that great speakers do, [br]that other people don't. 0:02:03.739,0:02:07.021 and it's my belief that [br]every single human being 0:02:07.021,0:02:09.982 can be a great speaker [br]and that their words 0:02:09.982,0:02:11.587 can create a tipping point, 0:02:11.587,0:02:16.547 and that their words and their[br]essencecan change the world. 0:02:16.553,0:02:21.443 The first secret is about words [br]and understanding that words 0:02:21.443,0:02:24.459 can be the best, [br]the most amazing in the world 0:02:24.459,0:02:28.524 but they only actually touch [br]people and communicate 0:02:28.524,0:02:32.674 seven percent of the impact [br]that one human being has on another. 0:02:32.674,0:02:37.063 Voice tone, the variation[br]in your voice, the enthusiams, 0:02:37.063,0:02:39.671 the love, the passion that [br]comes through your voice, 0:02:39.671,0:02:41.530 38% percent your body language, 0:02:41.530,0:02:43.903 are you looking into someone's eyes 0:02:43.903,0:02:46.991 or are you looking over their [br]head and not connected. 0:02:46.991,0:02:48.871 So words, voice tone [br]and body language, 0:02:48.871,0:02:51.502 those are the three vehicles,[br]the tree pathways 0:02:51.502,0:02:54.302 that great communication happens in. 0:02:54.530,0:02:56.008 Secret #4 0:02:56.445,0:03:00.548 What most people do, is that they throw so much data out, 0:03:00.705,0:03:02.420 trying to prove that they are smart, 0:03:02.800,0:03:03.943 trying to get all the content out. 0:03:03.943,0:03:05.813 Words are the seven percent. 0:03:05.867,0:03:09.753 What is important is what is that one thing you want to leave people with? 0:03:09.753,0:03:13.297 What is that headline? That's what makes a great speech. 0:03:13.330,0:03:15.420 And that's what we are talking about today. 0:03:15.635,0:03:18.175 Secret #5 is fascinating. 0:03:18.203,0:03:22.014 If you are afraid or if any of you are afraid of public speeking, 0:03:22.094,0:03:26.019 41% of the World, across cultures, 0:03:26.078,0:03:29.428 is terrified almost to the point and often to the point 0:03:29.464,0:03:32.724 of actually turning down speaking appointments. 0:03:32.784,0:03:36.982 Wether they are political leaders, or business leaders or charitable leaders, 0:03:37.198,0:03:39.954 they turn down opportunities to shake the World, 0:03:40.047,0:03:41.575 because they are scared. 0:03:41.655,0:03:43.952 There are a lot of reasons why people are scared 0:03:44.266,0:03:46.578 but in my experience, the number one reason is: 0:03:46.767,0:03:49.643 that we don't know what public speaking really is. 0:03:49.648,0:03:51.286 We don't know the true definition. 0:03:51.601,0:03:53.351 The true definition of public speaking is 0:03:53.351,0:03:55.397 that public speaking is nothing more 0:03:55.949,0:03:59.860 than having a conversation from your heart, 0:04:00.689,0:04:04.132 about something you are authentically passionate about. 0:04:05.567,0:04:07.430 If you think it's a performance, 0:04:07.729,0:04:11.020 you are going to be a 0% you and a 100% actor, 0:04:11.150,0:04:14.040 we don't get to see and experience and feel who you are. 0:04:14.338,0:04:18.097 So, I want you to write the word "speech", down, on a piece of paper, 0:04:18.147,0:04:19.632 and I want you to put a circle around it. 0:04:19.665,0:04:21.175 and I want you to put a line through it. 0:04:21.208,0:04:24.848 I don't want you ever, ever to give an other speech. 0:04:24.875,0:04:26.575 That's not what great speakers do. 0:04:26.624,0:04:29.601 They don't give a speech, they don't give a performance, 0:04:29.661,0:04:31.381 they don't make a presentation to the audience, 0:04:31.392,0:04:32.959 they have what? 0:04:32.979,0:04:36.626 They have a conversation with, it's a circle. 0:04:36.649,0:04:40.649 It brings us all together, we are a web, connected to every other person. 0:04:40.691,0:04:42.711 And that's what great speakers do. 0:04:43.674,0:04:45.456 When I first met Princess Diana, 0:04:46.432,0:04:49.061 she looks me in the eye and says: 0:04:49.238,0:04:53.393 "You know I am so scared of public speaking and I wish that I could do what Charles does". 0:04:54.024,0:04:59.194 It was when they were actually breaking up so it was even more difficult for her to admit that. 0:04:59.248,0:05:00.980 And I said: "What does he do? " 0:05:01.221,0:05:05.836 "Well, he just stands up there and he tells these funny jokes and then he moves on 0:05:06.023,0:05:08.118 and he is completly unphased by it." 0:05:08.358,0:05:12.827 And I told her that Prince Charles doesn't have what she has. 0:05:13.299,0:05:17.664 And what she had, was what touched and moved the world. 0:05:17.845,0:05:20.371 People connected with her on a human level. 0:05:20.500,0:05:23.589 And all you need to do, your royal highness, 0:05:23.718,0:05:27.919 is just share from your heart, that huge heart that you have, 0:05:27.919,0:05:30.572 and your guts and people will love you. 0:05:30.637,0:05:33.387 Even through the speech that scares you, 0:05:33.400,0:05:36.620 they will feel you, they will know you, they will connect with you. 0:05:36.832,0:05:39.607 And that's far more effective than giving a speech, 0:05:39.607,0:05:42.587 than telling a funny joke but not sharing your heart. 0:05:44.390,0:05:45.450 So, secret #6, 0:05:46.134,0:05:47.932 and you've noticed that in some of the speakers, 0:05:48.432,0:05:50.696 we actually have 5 parts of our brain. 0:05:50.700,0:05:52.756 Those 5 different senses, 0:05:52.974,0:05:55.511 seing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and feeling, 0:05:56.070,0:06:00.109 translated in 4 actual communication languages. 0:06:00.315,0:06:02.746 Speak one of them, you're not gonna be very good. 0:06:02.959,0:06:06.039 Speak 2 of them, you're gonna be average, no matter who you are. 0:06:06.074,0:06:10.024 Speak all 4, no matter who you are, you're gonna rock the World. 0:06:10.108,0:06:15.502 Because you're gonna be giving every person in the audience, something that they can connect to. 0:06:15.966,0:06:19.966 And visualize the energy, it's the energy of energy. 0:06:20.029,0:06:25.412 It's Robby Williams, I used to give him as an exemple and I'm gonna continue to use him as an exemple. 0:06:25.440,0:06:27.344 How amazing was Robbin Williams. 0:06:27.930,0:06:32.957 Auditories, the ability to translate details of what you see what you think, what you feel, 0:06:33.118,0:06:35.322 into a story, into words. 0:06:35.348,0:06:37.642 Ronald Reagan was a great example of that. 0:06:37.923,0:06:41.730 Auditory/ Digital, that's the Albert Einstein, the Bill Gates. 0:06:42.160,0:06:46.500 The analytical, statistically driven kind of information. 0:06:46.619,0:06:49.130 You don' have that, you don't have the fondation of credibility. 0:06:49.270,0:06:53.403 People are gonna go: "Woah, that person is charming but there is no there there." 0:06:53.742,0:06:58.242 Kinaesthetic is the James Earl Jones, the Morgan Freeman, The Barry White. 0:06:58.583,0:07:00.395 Oh Baby... 0:07:02.367,0:07:03.771 It's the poet's alley, 0:07:04.238,0:07:08.086 it's that connecting thing that is in each and everyone of us. 0:07:08.116,0:07:11.871 That is the most important thing, in being a speaker, in being a communicator. 0:07:13.126,0:07:19.156 #7, you could just have this and nothing else and you would still rock the word. 0:07:19.255,0:07:21.066 As so many people do. 0:07:21.163,0:07:22.427 And that is your authentic passion. 0:07:23.272,0:07:27.427 What is it that is so effing cool that you just have to share it? 0:07:27.642,0:07:29.462 Or that is so effing compelling? 0:07:29.656,0:07:32.376 And I use that middle word, you can use whatever version you want, 0:07:32.813,0:07:35.469 because it's a distraught thing, it's not intellectual. 0:07:35.662,0:07:42.685 So let's go back on our chronological tour of great speeches that have created tipping points in the world. 0:07:44.338,0:07:51.370 Lou Gehrig didn't create a tipping point in terms of global geopolitics of the world 0:07:51.678,0:07:56.357 But he created a tiping point in understanding the human spirit and his own. 0:07:56.485,0:08:01.726 Here it was as you all know that he was diagnosed with ALS. He tried to play, he couldn't play, 0:08:02.420,0:08:06.793 He had to end his carreer, and Yankee stadium held a day for him. 0:08:06.939,0:08:08.869 Lou Gehrig day, it was in 1939. 0:08:09.630,0:08:13.584 He gets out there and he, like so many of you gets petrified in public speaking. 0:08:13.643,0:08:17.111 And he is there, he is there and then, just when it's time for him to go on, 0:08:17.312,0:08:18.964 he starts backing away. 0:08:19.283,0:08:20.719 "I can't do this. I can't do this." 0:08:21.185,0:08:27.187 His manager comes up and puts his arm around him and says: "Lou, we're all here for you my friend." 0:08:27.527,0:08:30.840 And walks him up and goes and this is what he says: 0:08:30.982,0:08:38.136 "Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." 0:08:38.354,0:08:43.010 Everyone who study public speaking, puts that speech on their list. 0:08:43.926,0:08:49.738 It's just unbelievable the sense of gratitude this man had in the middle of his own personal crisis. 0:08:50.218,0:08:52.289 But lets go to the next year. 0:08:52.755,0:08:59.051 A huge tipping point is about to happen for Great Britain and their battle against Nazi Germany. 0:08:59.236,0:09:03.262 3 days before the speech, King Georges goes to Winston Churchill and says: 0:09:03.623,0:09:09.437 "Please, I want you to be the Prime Minister, We get to do something, face this threat". 0:09:09.665,0:09:15.785 It's just Winston Churchill's audio, they didn't have the video in the House of Commons in 1940's. 0:09:16.252,0:09:19.780 I say to the House as I said to ministers who have joined this government, 0:09:20.028,0:09:27.400 I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. 0:09:28.758,0:09:34.042 The Word would have been a different place, without Winston Churchill and those words 0:09:34.318,0:09:37.289 and that level of conviction, leadership and resolve. 0:09:37.335,0:09:38.945 Let's move forward now. 0:09:39.001,0:09:41.561 Let's thrive from JF Kennedy and you'll see why. 0:09:41.561,0:09:43.861 This one, you all know about. 0:09:43.953,0:09:47.745 He was following an old General Dwight D. Eisenhower. 0:09:47.745,0:09:51.655 He is in his 40's, a whole new era for America and the World. 0:09:51.655,0:09:54.876 You'll be familiar with the first part of this but probably not the second. 0:09:55.077,0:10:04.887 "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." 0:10:07.015,0:10:08.924 and he continues: 0:10:11.612,0:10:19.453 "My fellow citizens of the World, ask not what America will do for you 0:10:19.830,0:10:24.015 but what together we can do for the freedom of men." 0:10:27.676,0:10:32.369 The World became a different place, because of that speech and that new President. 0:10:32.834,0:10:36.556 And he proved it several times, couple of years later, 0:10:36.849,0:10:42.129 at Rice University, he is talking about his authentic passion: 0:10:42.324,0:10:44.086 put a man on the moon. 0:10:44.232,0:10:50.043 Listen to the level of details here and notice that this is such a visionary leader 0:10:50.043,0:10:56.742 that he even commit himself and the USA when we don't even at that point, know how to do it. 0:10:57.430,0:11:02.724 "We shall send to the moon, 240000 miles away 0:11:02.724,0:11:05.370 from the control station in Houston 0:11:06.247,0:11:09.966 a giant rocket, more than 300 feet tall, 0:11:10.089,0:11:11.949 the lenght of this football field, 0:11:12.310,0:11:14.343 made of new metal alloys, 0:11:14.780,0:11:16.968 Some of which have not yet been invented. 0:11:17.156,0:11:23.812 capable of standing heat and stress, several times more then it has ever been experienced. 0:11:24.177,0:11:28.051 Put together with a precision better than the finest watch. 0:11:28.325,0:11:33.970 Carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, 0:11:34.252,0:11:41.078 food and survival on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, 0:11:41.520,0:11:44.237 and then return it safely to earth, 0:11:44.515,0:11:48.767 re-entering the atmosphere at speed of over 25,000 miles per hour 0:11:49.357,0:11:53.049 causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun 0:11:53.241,0:11:55.893 almost as hot as it is here today 0:11:55.975,0:12:00.967 and do all this, and do it right, and do it first 0:12:00.967,0:12:02.827 before this decade is out- 0:12:03.033,0:12:05.288 then we must be bold."[br][br] 0:12:05.609,0:12:07.640 How amazing was that? 0:12:07.674,0:12:10.994 Sadly, he didn't get to live to see that. 0:12:11.233,0:12:14.357 But he made it happen through his vision, his leadership 0:12:14.423,0:12:17.046 and creating that tipping point with that speech. 0:12:17.271,0:12:20.766 and then, as you know, the famous speech, he is in Berlin. 0:12:20.956,0:12:23.987 The west Berliners are suffering mightily, 0:12:24.180,0:12:26.462 He goes in and says: "They're not alone." 0:12:26.642,0:12:29.956 "All free men, wherever they may live, 0:12:30.111,0:12:37.024 as citizens of Berlin and therefore as a free man, 0:12:37.246,0:12:42.514 I take pride in the words: Ich bin ein Berliner." 0:12:48.641,0:12:55.322 Ok, so, next year after that, or actually later that year, 0:12:55.472,0:12:58.444 Dr. Martin Luther King, I think you're all aware of this, 0:12:58.568,0:13:05.288 no-one will doubt that this speech, half of what he had lived, 0:13:05.833,0:13:07.988 shook the word and created a tipping point. 0:13:08.304,0:13:15.993 "I have a dream that my four little children will one day, 0:13:16.039,0:13:20.382 live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin 0:13:20.524,0:13:22.576 but by the content of their character. 0:13:22.734,0:13:24.483 I have a dream today." 0:13:27.043,0:13:31.848 If only it were true and we're making progress because of that speech. 0:13:32.593,0:13:34.439 Barbara Jordan, someone you may not now, 0:13:34.702,0:13:38.567 Texas Congress woman, was the last person to speak at the Wattergate Commity. 0:13:38.781,0:13:42.291 Talking about wether we were going to impeach Richard Nixon. 0:13:42.593,0:13:45.588 She was a freshman Congress woman, it was around midnight, 0:13:45.850,0:13:49.534 and yet, her words with that incredible voice tone of hers, 0:13:49.721,0:13:53.198 shook the world and catalysed the movement against Richard Nixon. 0:13:53.532,0:14:00.848 "Today, I am an inquisitor and probably will not be fictionnal 0:14:00.881,0:14:05.126 and I would not overstate the solemness that I feel right now. 0:14:05.126,0:14:11.012 My faith in the Constitution is whole ad is complete and is total. 0:14:11.012,0:14:14.505 And I will not going to sit ere and be an idle spectator 0:14:14.785,0:14:22.883 to the demolution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." 0:14:23.893,0:14:25.010 Barack Obama: 0:14:25.891,0:14:28.612 "Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let's face it, 0:14:29.424,0:14:32.459 my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely." 0:14:34.035,0:14:39.261 and that's it, right there, that speech, was a tipping point. 0:14:39.476,0:14:41.038 It changed America, wether you like it or not, 0:14:41.271,0:14:43.884 that one speech in 2004, changed America. 0:14:44.181,0:14:48.598 We don't have audio of this but one of my favourite speech ever is 0:14:48.788,0:14:50.910 the speech given by Albert Einstein: 0:14:51.092,0:14:54.412 (reading) 0:15:17.787,0:15:21.793 And he did that and created a shift where we understood 0:15:22.045,0:15:25.131 how matter and energy are the same. 0:15:25.390,0:15:28.448 Created an new paradygme and some people even think 0:15:28.625,0:15:35.513 that it mirrors that ancient symbol for God called Ohm. 0:15:35.622,0:15:38.318 If you look at it there is a backward E, 0:15:38.537,0:15:46.589 there is an equal sign, an M, there is a C and there is a supernumerary that also looks like the square. 0:15:46.692,0:15:55.422 Equals E=MC2 thousands years ago, reflected in Albert Einstein's discovery in 1906. 0:15:55.737,0:16:02.761 I want to play with this, in my opinion, this is the more powerfull couple of minutes in a recorded oratory, 0:16:03.668,0:16:06.361 recorded tipping speech making, in the history of the word. 0:16:07.041,0:16:10.639 Feel it and notice, this is the last speech he gave, before he died. 0:16:10.805,0:16:14.950 He died and it's obvious he knew it, he died the next day. 0:16:15.086,0:16:18.011 Martin Luther King: "Like anybody, I would like to live, 0:16:18.826,0:16:27.388 a long life, longevity has it's place, but I'm not concerned about that now. 0:16:29.138,0:16:35.916 I just want to do Gods will. And Hes allowed me to go up to the mountain. 0:16:36.325,0:16:43.479 And Ive looked over, and I've seen the promised land. 0:16:43.762,0:16:49.013 I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight 0:16:49.013,0:16:54.417 that we as a people, will get to the promised land.[br] 0:17:00.169,0:17:05.951 So, I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man. 0:17:06.207,0:17:10.887 My eyes has seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." 0:17:11.355,0:17:13.892 So, are you afraid of public speaking? 0:17:14.105,0:17:18.355 If so, you're along with half of the people on the planet. 0:17:18.529,0:17:22.578 the way over that is to see it as a conversation from your heart 0:17:22.750,0:17:24.918 and to ask yourself this one question: 0:17:25.073,0:17:28.228 What is my Dharma? What is it that I am passionate about? 0:17:28.426,0:17:30.730 That I want to share with the word? 0:17:30.994,0:17:33.917 "Someting that my unique DNA, which is contained 0:17:34.073,0:17:40.200 in every one of 50 trillion cells carried in 5000 atomic bombs worth of energy," 0:17:40.280,0:17:41.799 that's what Einstein said. 0:17:42.042,0:17:45.228 Will allow me to be out in the World, make a difference, 0:17:45.430,0:17:50.169 give speeches, share my passion, and make the word a better place. 0:17:50.393,0:17:55.917 Every single person I worked with had the ability on her own way to break through. 0:17:56.112,0:18:00.074 To make the world a better place, to bring that passion out, 0:18:00.355,0:18:06.481 and to create a tipping point that will change every single thing on the planet. 0:18:06.724,0:18:10.355 And indeed make the world a better place and indeed I encourage you, 0:18:10.551,0:18:13.394 please, step through the fear, share your passion, 0:18:13.592,0:18:15.447 share who ou are authentically 0:18:15.643,0:18:17.230 and make that difference. 0:18:17.425,0:18:19.603 Thank you all so much.