1 00:00:10,728 --> 00:00:12,138 It's 1903 2 00:00:12,438 --> 00:00:16,281 and this extraordinary guy named Teddy Roosevelt 3 00:00:16,281 --> 00:00:21,001 is standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon 4 00:00:21,007 --> 00:00:27,107 and at that time people wanted to create hotels and spas 5 00:00:27,107 --> 00:00:30,242 and turn the Grand Canyon, in 1903, 6 00:00:30,242 --> 00:00:34,211 intoa profit-making disneyland of the environment. 7 00:00:34,211 --> 00:00:37,026 And he stood and said no. 8 00:00:37,676 --> 00:00:41,347 And he created a tipping point for the environmental movement 9 00:00:41,347 --> 00:00:42,868 and for the world. 10 00:00:42,868 --> 00:00:45,785 He said: "leave it as it is. 11 00:00:45,935 --> 00:00:51,455 the ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it." 12 00:00:51,455 --> 00:00:54,204 (Aplauses) 13 00:00:54,204 --> 00:00:58,085 The world would have been a different place today 14 00:00:58,085 --> 00:01:02,811 without those words, those tipping point words 15 00:01:02,811 --> 00:01:05,002 from President Theodore Roosevelt. 16 00:01:05,222 --> 00:01:09,867 Fast forward, his fifth cousin, President Franklin Roosevelt, 17 00:01:09,867 --> 00:01:14,674 30 years later - 1933 - in the midst of a huge crisis, 18 00:01:14,674 --> 00:01:18,814 the great Depression of America, said a few words 19 00:01:18,814 --> 00:01:22,565 to create a tipping point towards healing for the USA. 20 00:01:22,565 --> 00:01:27,039 "First of all. Let me assert my firm belief 21 00:01:27,709 --> 00:01:33,378 that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, 22 00:01:34,558 --> 00:01:37,987 nameless unreasoning unjustified terror 23 00:01:38,657 --> 00:01:44,137 which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." 24 00:01:45,577 --> 00:01:47,633 The world would have been a different place 25 00:01:47,633 --> 00:01:51,548 without those words, at that time, from that man. 26 00:01:52,437 --> 00:01:56,891 So, in my 30 years of studying public speaking 27 00:01:56,891 --> 00:01:58,274 and great speeches, 28 00:01:58,294 --> 00:02:00,365 I've found that there are seven secrets 29 00:02:00,365 --> 00:02:03,739 that great speakers do, that other people don't. 30 00:02:03,739 --> 00:02:07,021 and it's my belief that every single human being 31 00:02:07,021 --> 00:02:09,982 can be a great speaker and that their words 32 00:02:09,982 --> 00:02:11,587 can create a tipping point, 33 00:02:11,587 --> 00:02:16,547 and that their words and their essencecan change the world. 34 00:02:16,553 --> 00:02:21,443 The first secret is about words and understanding that words 35 00:02:21,443 --> 00:02:24,459 can be the best, the most amazing in the world 36 00:02:24,459 --> 00:02:28,524 but they only actually touch people and communicate 37 00:02:28,524 --> 00:02:32,674 seven percent of the impact that one human being has on another. 38 00:02:32,674 --> 00:02:37,063 Voice tone, the variation in your voice, the enthusiams, 39 00:02:37,063 --> 00:02:39,671 the love, the passion that comes through your voice, 40 00:02:39,671 --> 00:02:41,530 38% percent your body language, 41 00:02:41,530 --> 00:02:43,903 are you looking into someone's eyes 42 00:02:43,903 --> 00:02:46,991 or are you looking over their head and not connected. 43 00:02:46,991 --> 00:02:48,871 So words, voice tone and body language, 44 00:02:48,871 --> 00:02:51,502 those are the three vehicles, the tree pathways 45 00:02:51,502 --> 00:02:54,302 that great communication happens in. 46 00:02:54,530 --> 00:02:56,008 Secret #4 47 00:02:56,445 --> 00:03:00,548 What most people do, is that they throw so much data out, 48 00:03:00,705 --> 00:03:02,420 trying to prove that they are smart, 49 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:03,943 trying to get all the content out. 50 00:03:03,943 --> 00:03:05,813 Words are the seven percent. 51 00:03:05,867 --> 00:03:09,753 What is important is what is that one thing you want to leave people with? 52 00:03:09,753 --> 00:03:13,297 What is that headline? That's what makes a great speech. 53 00:03:13,330 --> 00:03:15,420 And that's what we are talking about today. 54 00:03:15,635 --> 00:03:18,175 Secret #5 is fascinating. 55 00:03:18,203 --> 00:03:22,014 If you are afraid or if any of you are afraid of public speeking, 56 00:03:22,094 --> 00:03:26,019 41% of the World, across cultures, 57 00:03:26,078 --> 00:03:29,428 is terrified almost to the point and often to the point 58 00:03:29,464 --> 00:03:32,724 of actually turning down speaking appointments. 59 00:03:32,784 --> 00:03:36,982 Wether they are political leaders, or business leaders or charitable leaders, 60 00:03:37,198 --> 00:03:39,954 they turn down opportunities to shake the World, 61 00:03:40,047 --> 00:03:41,575 because they are scared. 62 00:03:41,655 --> 00:03:43,952 There are a lot of reasons why people are scared 63 00:03:44,266 --> 00:03:46,578 but in my experience, the number one reason is: 64 00:03:46,767 --> 00:03:49,643 that we don't know what public speaking really is. 65 00:03:49,648 --> 00:03:51,286 We don't know the true definition. 66 00:03:51,601 --> 00:03:53,351 The true definition of public speaking is 67 00:03:53,351 --> 00:03:55,397 that public speaking is nothing more 68 00:03:55,949 --> 00:03:59,860 than having a conversation from your heart, 69 00:04:00,689 --> 00:04:04,132 about something you are authentically passionate about. 70 00:04:05,567 --> 00:04:07,430 If you think it's a performance, 71 00:04:07,729 --> 00:04:11,020 you are going to be a 0% you and a 100% actor, 72 00:04:11,150 --> 00:04:14,040 we don't get to see and experience and feel who you are. 73 00:04:14,338 --> 00:04:18,097 So, I want you to write the word "speech", down, on a piece of paper, 74 00:04:18,147 --> 00:04:19,632 and I want you to put a circle around it. 75 00:04:19,665 --> 00:04:21,175 and I want you to put a line through it. 76 00:04:21,208 --> 00:04:24,848 I don't want you ever, ever to give an other speech. 77 00:04:24,875 --> 00:04:26,575 That's not what great speakers do. 78 00:04:26,624 --> 00:04:29,601 They don't give a speech, they don't give a performance, 79 00:04:29,661 --> 00:04:31,381 they don't make a presentation to the audience, 80 00:04:31,392 --> 00:04:32,959 they have what? 81 00:04:32,979 --> 00:04:36,626 They have a conversation with, it's a circle. 82 00:04:36,649 --> 00:04:40,649 It brings us all together, we are a web, connected to every other person. 83 00:04:40,691 --> 00:04:42,711 And that's what great speakers do. 84 00:04:43,674 --> 00:04:45,456 When I first met Princess Diana, 85 00:04:46,432 --> 00:04:49,061 she looks me in the eye and says: 86 00:04:49,238 --> 00:04:53,393 "You know I am so scared of public speaking and I wish that I could do what Charles does". 87 00:04:54,024 --> 00:04:59,194 It was when they were actually breaking up so it was even more difficult for her to admit that. 88 00:04:59,248 --> 00:05:00,980 And I said: "What does he do? " 89 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 90 00:05:06,023 --> 00:05:08,118 and he is completly unphased by it." 91 00:05:08,358 --> 00:05:12,827 And I told her that Prince Charles doesn't have what she has. 92 00:05:13,299 --> 00:05:17,664 And what she had, was what touched and moved the world. 93 00:05:17,845 --> 00:05:20,371 People connected with her on a human level. 94 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:23,589 And all you need to do, your royal highness, 95 00:05:23,718 --> 00:05:27,919 is just share from your heart, that huge heart that you have, 96 00:05:27,919 --> 00:05:30,572 and your guts and people will love you. 97 00:05:30,637 --> 00:05:33,387 Even through the speech that scares you, 98 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,620 they will feel you, they will know you, they will connect with you. 99 00:05:36,832 --> 00:05:39,607 And that's far more effective than giving a speech, 100 00:05:39,607 --> 00:05:42,587 than telling a funny joke but not sharing your heart. 101 00:05:44,390 --> 00:05:45,450 So, secret #6, 102 00:05:46,134 --> 00:05:47,932 and you've noticed that in some of the speakers, 103 00:05:48,432 --> 00:05:50,696 we actually have 5 parts of our brain. 104 00:05:50,700 --> 00:05:52,756 Those 5 different senses, 105 00:05:52,974 --> 00:05:55,511 seing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and feeling, 106 00:05:56,070 --> 00:06:00,109 translated in 4 actual communication languages. 107 00:06:00,315 --> 00:06:02,746 Speak one of them, you're not gonna be very good. 108 00:06:02,959 --> 00:06:06,039 Speak 2 of them, you're gonna be average, no matter who you are. 109 00:06:06,074 --> 00:06:10,024 Speak all 4, no matter who you are, you're gonna rock the World. 110 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. 111 00:06:15,966 --> 00:06:19,966 And visualize the energy, it's the energy of energy. 112 00:06:20,029 --> 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. 113 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:27,344 How amazing was Robbin Williams. 114 00:06:27,930 --> 00:06:32,957 Auditories, the ability to translate details of what you see what you think, what you feel, 115 00:06:33,118 --> 00:06:35,322 into a story, into words. 116 00:06:35,348 --> 00:06:37,642 Ronald Reagan was a great example of that. 117 00:06:37,923 --> 00:06:41,730 Auditory/ Digital, that's the Albert Einstein, the Bill Gates. 118 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,500 The analytical, statistically driven kind of information. 119 00:06:46,619 --> 00:06:49,130 You don' have that, you don't have the fondation of credibility. 120 00:06:49,270 --> 00:06:53,403 People are gonna go: "Woah, that person is charming but there is no there there." 121 00:06:53,742 --> 00:06:58,242 Kinaesthetic is the James Earl Jones, the Morgan Freeman, The Barry White. 122 00:06:58,583 --> 00:07:00,395 Oh Baby... 123 00:07:02,367 --> 00:07:03,771 It's the poet's alley, 124 00:07:04,238 --> 00:07:08,086 it's that connecting thing that is in each and everyone of us. 125 00:07:08,116 --> 00:07:11,871 That is the most important thing, in being a speaker, in being a communicator. 126 00:07:13,126 --> 00:07:19,156 #7, you could just have this and nothing else and you would still rock the word. 127 00:07:19,255 --> 00:07:21,066 As so many people do. 128 00:07:21,163 --> 00:07:22,427 And that is your authentic passion. 129 00:07:23,272 --> 00:07:27,427 What is it that is so effing cool that you just have to share it? 130 00:07:27,642 --> 00:07:29,462 Or that is so effing compelling? 131 00:07:29,656 --> 00:07:32,376 And I use that middle word, you can use whatever version you want, 132 00:07:32,813 --> 00:07:35,469 because it's a distraught thing, it's not intellectual. 133 00:07:35,662 --> 00:07:42,685 So let's go back on our chronological tour of great speeches that have created tipping points in the world. 134 00:07:44,338 --> 00:07:51,370 Lou Gehrig didn't create a tipping point in terms of global geopolitics of the world 135 00:07:51,678 --> 00:07:56,357 But he created a tiping point in understanding the human spirit and his own. 136 00:07:56,485 --> 00:08:01,726 Here it was as you all know that he was diagnosed with ALS. He tried to play, he couldn't play, 137 00:08:02,420 --> 00:08:06,793 He had to end his carreer, and Yankee stadium held a day for him. 138 00:08:06,939 --> 00:08:08,869 Lou Gehrig day, it was in 1939. 139 00:08:09,630 --> 00:08:13,584 He gets out there and he, like so many of you gets petrified in public speaking. 140 00:08:13,643 --> 00:08:17,111 And he is there, he is there and then, just when it's time for him to go on, 141 00:08:17,312 --> 00:08:18,964 he starts backing away. 142 00:08:19,283 --> 00:08:20,719 "I can't do this. I can't do this." 143 00:08:21,185 --> 00:08:27,187 His manager comes up and puts his arm around him and says: "Lou, we're all here for you my friend." 144 00:08:27,527 --> 00:08:30,840 And walks him up and goes and this is what he says: 145 00:08:30,982 --> 00:08:38,136 "Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." 146 00:08:38,354 --> 00:08:43,010 Everyone who study public speaking, puts that speech on their list. 147 00:08:43,926 --> 00:08:49,738 It's just unbelievable the sense of gratitude this man had in the middle of his own personal crisis. 148 00:08:50,218 --> 00:08:52,289 But lets go to the next year. 149 00:08:52,755 --> 00:08:59,051 A huge tipping point is about to happen for Great Britain and their battle against Nazi Germany. 150 00:08:59,236 --> 00:09:03,262 3 days before the speech, King Georges goes to Winston Churchill and says: 151 00:09:03,623 --> 00:09:09,437 "Please, I want you to be the Prime Minister, We get to do something, face this threat". 152 00:09:09,665 --> 00:09:15,785 It's just Winston Churchill's audio, they didn't have the video in the House of Commons in 1940's. 153 00:09:16,252 --> 00:09:19,780 I say to the House as I said to ministers who have joined this government, 154 00:09:20,028 --> 00:09:27,400 I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. 155 00:09:28,758 --> 00:09:34,042 The Word would have been a different place, without Winston Churchill and those words 156 00:09:34,318 --> 00:09:37,289 and that level of conviction, leadership and resolve. 157 00:09:37,335 --> 00:09:38,945 Let's move forward now. 158 00:09:39,001 --> 00:09:41,561 Let's thrive from JF Kennedy and you'll see why. 159 00:09:41,561 --> 00:09:43,861 This one, you all know about. 160 00:09:43,953 --> 00:09:47,745 He was following an old General Dwight D. Eisenhower. 161 00:09:47,745 --> 00:09:51,655 He is in his 40's, a whole new era for America and the World. 162 00:09:51,655 --> 00:09:54,876 You'll be familiar with the first part of this but probably not the second. 163 00:09:55,077 --> 00:10:04,887 "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." 164 00:10:07,015 --> 00:10:08,924 and he continues: 165 00:10:11,612 --> 00:10:19,453 "My fellow citizens of the World, ask not what America will do for you 166 00:10:19,830 --> 00:10:24,015 but what together we can do for the freedom of men." 167 00:10:27,676 --> 00:10:32,369 The World became a different place, because of that speech and that new President. 168 00:10:32,834 --> 00:10:36,556 And he proved it several times, couple of years later, 169 00:10:36,849 --> 00:10:42,129 at Rice University, he is talking about his authentic passion: 170 00:10:42,324 --> 00:10:44,086 put a man on the moon. 171 00:10:44,232 --> 00:10:50,043 Listen to the level of details here and notice that this is such a visionary leader 172 00:10:50,043 --> 00:10:56,742 that he even commit himself and the USA when we don't even at that point, know how to do it. 173 00:10:57,430 --> 00:11:02,724 "We shall send to the moon, 240000 miles away 174 00:11:02,724 --> 00:11:05,370 from the control station in Houston 175 00:11:06,247 --> 00:11:09,966 a giant rocket, more than 300 feet tall, 176 00:11:10,089 --> 00:11:11,949 the lenght of this football field, 177 00:11:12,310 --> 00:11:14,343 made of new metal alloys, 178 00:11:14,780 --> 00:11:16,968 Some of which have not yet been invented. 179 00:11:17,156 --> 00:11:23,812 capable of standing heat and stress, several times more then it has ever been experienced. 180 00:11:24,177 --> 00:11:28,051 Put together with a precision better than the finest watch. 181 00:11:28,325 --> 00:11:33,970 Carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, 182 00:11:34,252 --> 00:11:41,078 food and survival on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, 183 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,237 and then return it safely to earth, 184 00:11:44,515 --> 00:11:48,767 re-entering the atmosphere at speed of over 25,000 miles per hour 185 00:11:49,357 --> 00:11:53,049 causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun 186 00:11:53,241 --> 00:11:55,893 almost as hot as it is here today 187 00:11:55,975 --> 00:12:00,967 and do all this, and do it right, and do it first 188 00:12:00,967 --> 00:12:02,827 before this decade is out- 189 00:12:03,033 --> 00:12:05,288 then we must be bold." 190 00:12:05,609 --> 00:12:07,640 How amazing was that? 191 00:12:07,674 --> 00:12:10,994 Sadly, he didn't get to live to see that. 192 00:12:11,233 --> 00:12:14,357 But he made it happen through his vision, his leadership 193 00:12:14,423 --> 00:12:17,046 and creating that tipping point with that speech. 194 00:12:17,271 --> 00:12:20,766 and then, as you know, the famous speech, he is in Berlin. 195 00:12:20,956 --> 00:12:23,987 The west Berliners are suffering mightily, 196 00:12:24,180 --> 00:12:26,462 He goes in and says: "They're not alone." 197 00:12:26,642 --> 00:12:29,956 "All free men, wherever they may live, 198 00:12:30,111 --> 00:12:37,024 as citizens of Berlin and therefore as a free man, 199 00:12:37,246 --> 00:12:42,514 I take pride in the words: Ich bin ein Berliner." 200 00:12:48,641 --> 00:12:55,322 Ok, so, next year after that, or actually later that year, 201 00:12:55,472 --> 00:12:58,444 Dr. Martin Luther King, I think you're all aware of this, 202 00:12:58,568 --> 00:13:05,288 no-one will doubt that this speech, half of what he had lived, 203 00:13:05,833 --> 00:13:07,988 shook the word and created a tipping point. 204 00:13:08,304 --> 00:13:15,993 "I have a dream that my four little children will one day, 205 00:13:16,039 --> 00:13:20,382 live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin 206 00:13:20,524 --> 00:13:22,576 but by the content of their character. 207 00:13:22,734 --> 00:13:24,483 I have a dream today." 208 00:13:27,043 --> 00:13:31,848 If only it were true and we're making progress because of that speech. 209 00:13:32,593 --> 00:13:34,439 Barbara Jordan, someone you may not now, 210 00:13:34,702 --> 00:13:38,567 Texas Congress woman, was the last person to speak at the Wattergate Commity. 211 00:13:38,781 --> 00:13:42,291 Talking about wether we were going to impeach Richard Nixon. 212 00:13:42,593 --> 00:13:45,588 She was a freshman Congress woman, it was around midnight, 213 00:13:45,850 --> 00:13:49,534 and yet, her words with that incredible voice tone of hers, 214 00:13:49,721 --> 00:13:53,198 shook the world and catalysed the movement against Richard Nixon. 215 00:13:53,532 --> 00:14:00,848 "Today, I am an inquisitor and probably will not be fictionnal 216 00:14:00,881 --> 00:14:05,126 and I would not overstate the solemness that I feel right now. 217 00:14:05,126 --> 00:14:11,012 My faith in the Constitution is whole ad is complete and is total. 218 00:14:11,012 --> 00:14:14,505 And I will not going to sit ere and be an idle spectator 219 00:14:14,785 --> 00:14:22,883 to the demolution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." 220 00:14:23,893 --> 00:14:25,010 Barack Obama: 221 00:14:25,891 --> 00:14:28,612 "Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let's face it, 222 00:14:29,424 --> 00:14:32,459 my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely." 223 00:14:34,035 --> 00:14:39,261 and that's it, right there, that speech, was a tipping point. 224 00:14:39,476 --> 00:14:41,038 It changed America, wether you like it or not, 225 00:14:41,271 --> 00:14:43,884 that one speech in 2004, changed America. 226 00:14:44,181 --> 00:14:48,598 We don't have audio of this but one of my favourite speech ever is 227 00:14:48,788 --> 00:14:50,910 the speech given by Albert Einstein: 228 00:14:51,092 --> 00:14:54,412 (reading) 229 00:15:17,787 --> 00:15:21,793 And he did that and created a shift where we understood 230 00:15:22,045 --> 00:15:25,131 how matter and energy are the same. 231 00:15:25,390 --> 00:15:28,448 Created an new paradygme and some people even think 232 00:15:28,625 --> 00:15:35,513 that it mirrors that ancient symbol for God called Ohm. 233 00:15:35,622 --> 00:15:38,318 If you look at it there is a backward E, 234 00:15:38,537 --> 00:15:46,589 there is an equal sign, an M, there is a C and there is a supernumerary that also looks like the square. 235 00:15:46,692 --> 00:15:55,422 Equals E=MC2 thousands years ago, reflected in Albert Einstein's discovery in 1906. 236 00:15:55,737 --> 00:16:02,761 I want to play with this, in my opinion, this is the more powerfull couple of minutes in a recorded oratory, 237 00:16:03,668 --> 00:16:06,361 recorded tipping speech making, in the history of the word. 238 00:16:07,041 --> 00:16:10,639 Feel it and notice, this is the last speech he gave, before he died. 239 00:16:10,805 --> 00:16:14,950 He died and it's obvious he knew it, he died the next day. 240 00:16:15,086 --> 00:16:18,011 Martin Luther King: "Like anybody, I would like to live, 241 00:16:18,826 --> 00:16:27,388 a long life, longevity has it's place, but I'm not concerned about that now. 242 00:16:29,138 --> 00:16:35,916 I just want to do Gods will. And Hes allowed me to go up to the mountain. 243 00:16:36,325 --> 00:16:43,479 And Ive looked over, and I've seen the promised land. 244 00:16:43,762 --> 00:16:49,013 I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight 245 00:16:49,013 --> 00:16:54,417 that we as a people, will get to the promised land. 246 00:17:00,169 --> 00:17:05,951 So, I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man. 247 00:17:06,207 --> 00:17:10,887 My eyes has seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." 248 00:17:11,355 --> 00:17:13,892 So, are you afraid of public speaking? 249 00:17:14,105 --> 00:17:18,355 If so, you're along with half of the people on the planet. 250 00:17:18,529 --> 00:17:22,578 the way over that is to see it as a conversation from your heart 251 00:17:22,750 --> 00:17:24,918 and to ask yourself this one question: 252 00:17:25,073 --> 00:17:28,228 What is my Dharma? What is it that I am passionate about? 253 00:17:28,426 --> 00:17:30,730 That I want to share with the word? 254 00:17:30,994 --> 00:17:33,917 "Someting that my unique DNA, which is contained 255 00:17:34,073 --> 00:17:40,200 in every one of 50 trillion cells carried in 5000 atomic bombs worth of energy," 256 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:41,799 that's what Einstein said. 257 00:17:42,042 --> 00:17:45,228 Will allow me to be out in the World, make a difference, 258 00:17:45,430 --> 00:17:50,169 give speeches, share my passion, and make the word a better place. 259 00:17:50,393 --> 00:17:55,917 Every single person I worked with had the ability on her own way to break through. 260 00:17:56,112 --> 00:18:00,074 To make the world a better place, to bring that passion out, 261 00:18:00,355 --> 00:18:06,481 and to create a tipping point that will change every single thing on the planet. 262 00:18:06,724 --> 00:18:10,355 And indeed make the world a better place and indeed I encourage you, 263 00:18:10,551 --> 00:18:13,394 please, step through the fear, share your passion, 264 00:18:13,592 --> 00:18:15,447 share who ou are authentically 265 00:18:15,643 --> 00:18:17,230 and make that difference. 266 00:18:17,425 --> 00:18:19,603 Thank you all so much.